“Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.”

Gore Vidal, Réalités, August 1966

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“Writing doe not exclude the full life. It demands it.”

Katherine Anne Porter, from On Writing the Short Story, by Hallie Burnett

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“Literature must be written from the periphery toward the center…The man who is in the center does not have anything to write.”

Kenzaburo Oe, Art and Healing, 16 April 1999

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