Maxine Hong Kingston Chinese-American novelist, nonfiction writer, academic, and activist

Burning a New Path

December 3, 2007, 12:00 pm

My way of writing is that I always have to be exploring. I'm always going into new territory. To just look back and try to remember what the old words were, it just would not be right.

–Me, quoted on Powells.com, December 3rd, 2003

Maria Espinosa says:

new territory

Exploring new territory is being alive. It's much safer to repeat the same techniques and approaches that worked earlier. But as an artist, I think one's instinct is to go into the unknown.