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I always say to people, you have a banquet — you come to the table with your own culture, a full banquet. If you don't share it, it's not writing!

— Lee Maracle Interview (2020)

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This story deserves to be told; all stories do. Even the waves of the sea tell a story that deserves to be read. The stories that really need to be told are those that shake the very soul of you.

Celia’s Song (2014)

Academicians waste a great deal of effort deleting character, plot and story from theoretical arguments

Oratory: Coming to Theory (1990)

We are called upon to continuously grow from the realizations that we come to when we speak.

Memory Serves: Oratories (2015)

I think I've done what I set out to do, which is give Canada a glimpse of who we are.

Interview (2020)

Teachings are not dictums to be blindly followed. They are meant to be the beginnings of the development of governance or theory, but the individual is expected to interpret them personally.

Memory Serves: Oratories (2015)

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

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

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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