What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
タグ: writing

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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
タグ: stories, learned, within, listen
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
タグ: eye, only, sand, mind
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
タグ: authority, like, moral, sacrifice
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
タグ: outside, creativity, responsibility
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.
タグ: sociology, realize, creative, history
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