Carmen Maria Machado about Writing : Places are never just places in a piece

Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.

- Carmen Maria Machado

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Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.

- Carmen Maria Machado

places never places piece writing author failed setting inert activated point

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