Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on...

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed...

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of...

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of...

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid...

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid...

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter

A desert is a place without expectation.

A desert is a place without expectation.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...