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When I began writing, what I wanted to do above all was to tell stories about real people, past and present.

— Maïssa Bey

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Every sea should be a connection, a link, a bridge and a passage.

All I was looking to do was to push back against all this oppression that was weighing down on us at that time.

I see myself as a member of a kind of family. And that family has seen to it that we now have the right to speak.

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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.

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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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