Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
Carolyn HeilbrunPower is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
Carolyn HeilbrunWhat marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
Carolyn Heilbrun