From A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book

A lovely quote from The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt, on the joys of putting together a syllabus:

"There is a particular aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board" (119).

Commonplace Book, Entry 1

From Trinh T. Minh-ha's Woman Native Other:

"In a sense, committed writers are the ones who write both to awaken to the consciousness of their guilt and to give their readers a guilty conscience" (10-11).