What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity. (Barbara Kingsolver)

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

Barbara Kingsolver

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