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There are so many impediments and temptations to avoid writing. But self-censorship is never one of them.

— Luisa Valenzuela Interview (2022)

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My only real possession was a dream and they can't deprive me of my dreams just like that.

You cannot make a writer-it is an innate way of seeing the world, and a love of language, and a lifetime commitment.

Interview with ‘’The Paris Review (2001)

Those worlds erroneously called primitive have such rich cosmologies.

Interview (2022)

I believe fiction is a search shared with the reader.

Interview with ‘’The Paris Review (2001)

Writing cannot be taught, no, but stimulated, yes.

Interview (2018)

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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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