American Writers

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    The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
    Jill Robinson (b. 1936)

    Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. ...If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
    Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)