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The Top 10 Writing Posts From December 2018 - Writers Write
The Top 10 Writing Posts From December 2018
These were the new Writers Write posts you enjoyed most in December 2018:
- 5 Simple Ways To Keep The Writing Dream Alive
- 7 Secrets Of Advanced English Writing
- 7 Ways To Create Suspense In Your Memoir
- Helen Dunmore’s 9 Rules For Writing Fiction
- 11 Things You May Or May Not Need For Podcasting
- Why You Need A Premise In Fiction
- Michael Moorcock’s 10 Rules for Writers
- Breaking Down Writer’s Block
- 11 Public Libraries Invaluable to World History
- 31 Writing Prompts For December 2018
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Literary Birthday – 1 January – Claudia Rankine - Writers Write
Happy Birthday, Caludia Rankine, born 1 January 1963
Quotes
- I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.
- The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.
- Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It’s not arguing a point. It’s creating an environment.
- I don’t think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there’s a present and a future – and what was in the past no longer exists.
- As a writer, I don’t want people spending time thinking, “What does she mean?” I want, in a way, my text to go away. So that the words on the page become a door to one’s own internal investigation. It’s just a passage. If the work does its job, it just opens.
- Intimacy is important in my work because I don’t understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people – and in ways we don’t know.
Claudia Rankine is a Jamaican-born American poet, essayist, playwright, and the editor of several anthologies. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, two plays, and various essays. In 2013 Rankine was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She received the PEN Open Book Award and the NAACP Image Award for poetry in 2015 for Citizen: An American Lyric.
