To be a writer

For me, to be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, wounds so secret that we ourselves are barely aware of them, and to patiently explore them, know them, illuminate them, own them, and make them a conscious part of our spirit and our writing.

-- Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Lecture 2006

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[ 10 January 2007 4:38 pm submitted by Unknown ]