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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

Nadine Gordimer

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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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