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I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.

Source: In Chant of Saints, by Michael Harper and Robert B. Stepto, 1979.
-- Gayl Jones, (Nov 23 1949-____), US short story writer, novelist; She has a particular interest in black oral culture; her short stories and novels, notably Corregidora, 1977, capture the black idiom.

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