Eliza Griswold Quotes - Page 2

• You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen.

  Eliza Griswold

  Writing, Fiction, Journalism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.

  Eliza Griswold

  Play, Islam, Roles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn't feel relevant.

  Eliza Griswold

  People, World, Making Time

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Landays, they're about love and pleasure and oppression and levels of oppression within a family. And because of that, I think rap music is probably closely related.

  Eliza Griswold

  Rap, Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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