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I don't want to regurgitate. Writing should be constantly an act of creation and going forward into the new.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

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In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

The Fifth Book of Peace (2003)

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing. (p26)

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

I hope my writing has many layers, as human beings have layers.

Cultural Mis-readings by American Reviewers (1982)

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. (p29)

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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