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I’ve always regarded writing as a vocation more than a career. Vocation as in “calling,” as in “being summoned,” from the Latin vocare, which means “to call.”

— Valerie Miner with Stanford Institute for Gender Research (2017)

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As a feminist, I want to involve readers in the story and give them time to pause, reflect, argue, and engage.

with Stanford Institute for Gender Research (2017)

History shows that often artists first envision the change feminist activists seek to bring about.

with Stanford Institute for Gender Research (2017)

I didn't actually intend to write a murder mystery when I wrote Murder in the English Department. That's just what happened when these people got together. Every book is, in some sense, a mystery.

Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out (1993)

I'm very much an Irish Republican, in the sense that I believe that the troops should be out of the north and that the north should be part of Eire.

Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out (1993)

I care a lot about accessible prose. People often fail to see the subtlety in a sentence that has been honed, worked, and reworked, unless it's written by Ernest Hemingway and has a penis in it.

Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out (1993)

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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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