Joy Kogawa Quotes

• Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

  Joy Kogawa

  Garden, Tools, Soil

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• Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

  Joy Kogawa

  Fire, Hands, Fiction

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• People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

  Joy Kogawa

  People, Suffering, Use

  Joy Kogawa (1983). “Obasan”, Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books

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• Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

  Joy Kogawa

  Fire, Hands, Fiction

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