"I write to please myself—of course, that is……" — F. Sionil José
"I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life."
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F. Sionil José
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