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Rikki Ducornet Biography

Writer

Rikki Ducornet is an American writer known for her unique literary style and interdisciplinary writing. Her works span across various genres including novels, poetry, essays, and criticism, earning her acclaim from readers and critics alike.

Writing Children Creativity Writers

Author:Rikki Ducornet

“I like to imagine that Adam's tongue, his palate and his lips were always on fire, that the air he breathed was kindled to incandescence each time he cried out in sorrow or delight. If fiction can be said to have a function, it is to release that primary fury of which language, even now, is miraculously capable - from the dry mud of daily use. So that furred, spotted and striped, it may - as it did in Eden - scrawl under every tree as revelation.”

Writing Language Fiction

Book:The Jade Cabinet

Source: The Jade Cabinet

“A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.”

Writing Mind Book Evil Space Citizens Anything Is Possible Private Things

Author:Rikki Ducornet

“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.”

Ifs Book Dream Reading Causes Tangible Worth Reading

Author:Rikki Ducornet

“An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.”

Mind Important Light Memories Fields Return Moon Shadow Again And Again Compelled Light And Shadow

Book:Gazelle

Source: Gazelle

“Cinematic and symphonic: this is a compelling story revealed in a sequence of voices that are as pitch-perfect as they are irresistible. This is a wonderfully impressive debut: tender, muscled and unforgettable.”

Stories Voice Perfect Compelling Sequence Impressive Irresistible Debut Cinematic Unforgettable Pitch Perfect

Author:Rikki Ducornet

“The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven hoof. He is the sum of all creatures: the ones that swim, the ones that soar, the ones that leap, the ones that maze the earth with burrows.”

Love Children Age Earth Language Born Creatures Bird Wings Scales Leap Swim Soar Horns Mazes Beaks

Author:Rikki Ducornet

About the Author

Born: April 19, 1949
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 7

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