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“The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.”
― On Writing
― On Writing
“My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.”
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“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
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“What matters is the transformative power of metaphor and the stories we tell ourselves about the arc and meaning of our lives.”
― Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
― Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel.”
― On Writing
― On Writing
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