... it's not an accident that the creative imagination is the first thing that's punished when tyrannies take over … - Rikki Ducornet

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... it's not an accident that the creative imagination is the first thing that's punished when tyrannies take over …

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About Rikki Ducornet

(née Erica Lynn DeGre, born April 19, 1943) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet, artist, and illustrator. She won the for Fiction in 1993 and in 2004.

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Alternative Names: Erika DeGre Erica DeGre Erica Ducornet

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.. the way I work ... I'm really seized by the scruff of the neck each time. ... Something pounces. It's absolutely irresistible and often will pounce at three in the morning ... or at six in the morning ... And I will get up and start writing. ... I really count on novelty and synchronicity and dreams to direct me and to kind of release the energy.

Why do people need to have control over the lives of others? Why this fear of the other? This fear of difference — the fear of change — why this fear of our own bodies? Why this inability to accept our own death? What are the connections between those things?

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