Orhan Pamuk

"Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it!" ~Cixous

"You write -- don't you? -- because you're more alive when you write." ~ Sandra M. Gilbert _On Burning Ground_

"When does the story become real enough to change you?" ~ James Dawes

"The danger in writing is not fusing our personal experience and world view with the social reality we live in, with our inner life, our history, our economics, and our vision. What validates us as human beings validates us as writers. What matters to us is the relationships that are important to us whether with our self or others. We must use what is important to us to get to the writing. No topic is too trivial. The danger is in being too universal and humanitarian and invoking the eternal to the sacrifice of the particular and the feminine and the specific historical moment."
~ Gloria Anzaldua, "Speaking in Tongues" _This Bridge Called My Back_

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