The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Quote by Nadine Gordimer

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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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and...

Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and...

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.