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  • Author Hilton Als
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    Toni’s greatness as a novelist had a lot to do with her skill—her great ability—to show how we mucked up the landscape, not just in the world, but in ourselves. Slavery was one way we mucked it up, of course, and the enormous wound at the center of “Beloved” (1988) has to do with how slavery not only killed bodies, but made a mess of our minds, thus creating a particularly American way of thinking.

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Toni’s greatness as a novelist had a lot to do with her skill—her great ability—to show how we mucked up the landscape, not just in the world, but in ourselves. Slavery was one way we mucked it up, of course, and the enormous wound at the center of “Beloved” (1988) has to do with how slavery not only killed bodies, but made a mess of our minds, thus creating a particularly American way of thinking.

-Hilton Als

Passion is creativity on fire

-Suzy Davies

We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations.

-Kilroy J. Oldster

Love and respect are above any law

-Uri Jerzy Nachimson

Whoever defined fiction as an untrue event owe us an apology for fiction lives in me; fiction lives in us.

-Justina Omochere

Every event is a resource material.

-Justina Omochere

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story

-tushar upreti

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

-Elmore Leonard

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.

-Lailah Gifty Akita

 

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