Writing to someone who cannot answer back occupies the same liminal space of many possibilities and hopefulness of a reply.
Shanda McManus
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The PEN Ten interview with Eleanor Belinfanti, August 20, 2026; Complete 20-word sentence in first answer on letter-writing to her late brother. Full original indexed interview read. Hope concerns imaginative connection and processing grief, not a literal reply from the dead.
- The PEN Ten interview with Eleanor Belinfanti, August 20, 2026
More inspiration
See allYou gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor RooseveltNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Eleanor RooseveltLittle strokes fell great oaks.
Benjamin FranklinEnergy and persistence conquer all things.Benjamin FranklinWell done is better than well said.Benjamin FranklinIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
Eleanor RooseveltNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Eleanor RooseveltLittle strokes fell great oaks.Benjamin FranklinEnergy and persistence conquer all things.Benjamin FranklinWell done is better than well said.Benjamin FranklinIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.Frederick Douglass