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A series of quotes from Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work by bell hooks:

"All writing is confession. Confession masked and revealed in the voices and faces of our characters. All is hunger. The longing to be known fully and still loved. The admission of our own inherent vulnerability, our weakness, our tenderness of skin, fragillity of heart, our overwhelming desire to be relieved of the burden of ourselves in the body of another, to be forgiven of our ultimate aloneness in the mystical body of a god or the common work of a revolution. These are human considerations that the best of writers presses her fingers upon." --Cherrie Moraga

"I believe in the reality of work. Period. I do not distinguish between creative and critical writing because all writing is creative...Whatever the product - poem, story, essay, letter to lover, technical report - the problem is the same: the page is empty and will have to be filled. Out of nothing, something. And all writing is critical, requiring the same sifting, selection, scrutiny, and judgment of the material at hand. These distinctions are not useful..." --Nancy Mairs

"When I am writing, I sink down into myself, my memory, dreams, shames, and terrors. I answer questions no one has asked but me, avoid issues no one else has raised, and puzzle out just where my responsibility begins and ends." --Dorothy Allison