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Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.

~ John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman Brothers And Keepers Children Language Words

Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.

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John Edgar Wideman Existentialism Gratitude Jesus

All Stories are True.

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John Edgar Wideman Stories Truth

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

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John Edgar Wideman Book Lovers Importance Of Words Insightful Writing Craft

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

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John Edgar Wideman Writing Fun Little

My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.

~ John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman Father Mother Fat
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