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• The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. — James A. Baldwin
• To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth. — Unknown Author
• The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of… — Bryant H. McGill
• I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined,… — Yusef Komunyakaa
• Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't… — Barbara Mertz
• To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist. — Sarah Parcak
• I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate… — Edmund White
• We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care… — Zahi Hawass
• What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page… — John C. McGinley

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