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Writing Quotes by Bell Hooks
- Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
- I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
- Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative…
- I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the…
- No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.
- The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
- Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outsideâ€â€”comes to me in those…
- I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain.…
- A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and…
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- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
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- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange