“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
“Mr. Troutman ends the class by saying our role is a sacred one. 'We do what others can't,' he says, 'so that others can grieve in the way they need to.”
“All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. ”
“We are what we repeatedly do, but we can be perceived by what we repeatedly say.”
“It is not what we say that hurts but how we say it.”
“Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it?”