"The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes."

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A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's why you have to write." You don't wait until you know, because then who cares - it's static.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming