On whether writers have the responsibility to write about contemporary issues in “‘I can’t think of a happier story’: Shobha Rao talks GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER” https://www.booklistreader.com/2018/03/06/books-and-authors/i-cant-think-of-a-happier-story-shobha-rao-talks-girls-burn-brighter/ in Booklist Reader (2018 Mar 6)
“Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.”
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Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 422)
Oswald Bastable, The Steel Tsar (1981)
“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
Third Session of Parliament (June 30, 2007)
Interview, The Paris Review No. 80, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/730/the-art-of-poetry-no-80-geoffrey-hill
First inaugural address (January 20, 1993), Washington, D.C.
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Source: Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana 1952, p. 226
“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.”
Source: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 33