Creative Quotations from . . .
Elie Wiesel
(1928-____) born on Sep 30
Romanian-US novelist. His works provide a sober yet passionate testament of the plight of Jews during WW II; awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986.
 
   
F
The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you."

R
"That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it."
A
"Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses, and memories."
N
"Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain."
K
"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Parade.""
R: "In "Writers at Work," ed. by George Plimpton, 1988."
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: "In "Writers at Work," ed. by George Plimpton, 1988."
K: "In "Writers at Work," ed. by George Plimpton, 1988."
   



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