Carolina Quotes
I tell my writing students constantly that roughly ninety-five percent of the human race is legally blind, and I mean it quite literally.
Reynolds Price Carolinian
Source
"Reynolds Price, The Art of Fiction No. 127," interview before an audience at the 92nd Street Y, New York, November 19, 1990; The Paris Review, Issue 121, Winter 1991
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- The Art of Fiction No. 127
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- 1990
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