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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing a

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. – Joyce Carol Oates

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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. – Robert Caro

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India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. – Anita Desai

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