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“Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.”
Alden Nowlan
““We writers are a crazy bunch. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep inside, uncomfortable there, and wanting out.””
CJ Heck
“[Among those who made the last-minute switch: writers in Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. Many will wonder whether they and their counterparts in the coaches' poll succumbed to the lobbying efforts of 'Horns coach Mack Brown and/or pressure from their constituencies.] I thought it was a little classless how Coach Brown was begging for votes after the [Texas A&M] game, ... I think a team's record and the way you play should speak for itself.”
Aaron Rodgers
““A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...””
“Servitude is your legacy. It’s in your genes, peasant, or at least it had better be, or Mr. Banker will have someone bust open that empty skull of yours.”
Bobby W. Miller
“Our city and our world is so much more complicated. All of the writers in our series chose to address the negative parts of their lives, but they also wanted to show that you have people struggling to make beauty.”
Abram Himelstein
“Only pen have immortalized all the thoughts of humanity through history.”
Ilkin Santak
“John Kennedy Toole is one of my favorite writers, but he's not someone who means a lot to the kids I teach. This is all about having other voices.”
