“While I don’t have a sense of trying to craft a voice, I do have a sense of trying to avoid blending in with anyone else’s.” —Anne Carson https://t.co/voQSDaBW8Q
"Because I can no longer ignore my body while I’m writing, I have learned to trust its wisdom." Helen Sword on physicality and sensory observations.
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Physical beauty was always important to the French novelist Collette; in her most famous books, time, and its effect on her characters, is the grand antagonist. https://t.co/pMSEmdsYFO
"I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally." ~ Gerald Stern