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#essayist

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In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.


Jose Saramago


#because #effect #essayist #essays #failed

Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light.


Audre Lorde


#black-poet #essayist #feminist #ny-laureate #teacher

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.


Jose Saramago


#better #essayist #i #i am #novelist

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.


Nora Ephron


#experience

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.


Manuel Puig


#being #certain #essayist #fantasy #follow






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