“We write to exert power. . . ” Nellie Hermann

Nellie Herman. Cure.1“We write to exert power over something we can never control . . . The past.”  —Nellie Hermann

 — excerpted from “Why We Write,” by Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, Jan/Feb 2015 Poets & Writers

 

 

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