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In The Family of Things
…whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
— Mary Oliver — from, Wild Geese, 1986.
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Being a college student I once went to a bookstore in Cambridge and found a copy of Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges. It was the only copy available in English. I lifted the book off the table and after an hour I was standing there reading, I couldn’t stop reading. It was like someone opened some magic doors in my mind and I got to visit places I didn’t think it was possible to go…
- Salman Rushdie
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I feel like every writer has to be, in part, a marginal… If a writer does not have in him the possibilities of marginalization or a marginal vein, if he does not have a fracture of some kind, he can never become a writer. Many times I feel, for example, and see it, how people who study in my workshops, talented, intelligent, read, sensitive, etc. people. , they lack a certain break or they belong too entirely to a social class, with which they identify. I think that a person who is too entirely part of a social class, structured, as are social classes in Chile, those people, I think, cannot reach literary greatness.
