More quotes by Ralph Ellison
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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