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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
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One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
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The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
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