Carolina Quotes
The reason I write is because I love language. I never consciously think about writing as healing–that is journal work.
Kaye Gibbons Carolinian
Source
Interview with Virginia Daniel, "The life all around her," Independent Weekly, Raleigh, January 25, 2006
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