Interviews | June 01, 2009
A Conversation with Ellen Bryant Voigt
Candice Baxter ,Ellen Bryant Voigt ,Wendy Sumner Winter
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This is a culture that does not honor the arts, increasingly does not honor the arts, does not honor literacy, does not honor intelligence, does not honor contemplation. That’s what we’re swimming in. I think you have to find whatever it is that drove you to begin writing in the first place, and you have to feed it.
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