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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Creating is the closest thing to being immortal."

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Donna Grant

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

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Donna Grant

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

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Donna Grant

"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia'. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."

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Donna Grant

"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."

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Donna Grant

"If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can."

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Donna Grant

"Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you market, but then comes the moment of solace and flight. i sit and write and summon other friends, other forms of life, other experiences, and the voyage and the exploration, the delving into character, the vast expanse of life's possibilities and potentialities, contemplation of future travels, of dazzling friendships, all this then makes the chores and the sacrifices beautiful because they are diverted toward some beautiful aim, they become part of the structure of a work of art."

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Donna Grant

"Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest."

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Donna Grant

"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."

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Donna Grant

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

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Donna Grant

"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

Society

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

Mortality

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

Time

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

Religion

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Work

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

Work

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."

Relationship

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

Religion

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays."

Philosophy

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

Writing

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