Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go. — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene,… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
“Clarice scrawled, 'A question from when I was a little girl that I can answer only now: are rocks made, or are they born?… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
“A little girl's fantasies are one thing, and literature is another; just as numbers require rules to give them human meaning, words, too, demand… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go. — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
