Rikki Ducornet

Rikki Ducornet (née Erica Lynn DeGre, born April 19, 1943) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet, artist, and illustrator. She won the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1993 and in 2004. Quotes Why do people need to have control over the lives of others? Why this fear of the other? This fear of difference — the fear of change — why this fear of our own bodies? Why this inability to accept our own death? What are the connections between those things?  "Phosphor In Dreamland" author Rikki Ducornet & Robert Cohen May 18, 2007 radicalfilms, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vBdKNYbTsE&t=260s (quote at 4:20 of 26:44) .. the way I work ... I'm really seized by the scruff of the neck each time. ... Something pounces. It's absolutely irresistible and often will pounce at three in the morning ... or at six in the morning ... And I will get up and start writing. ... I really count on novelty and synchronicity and dreams to direct me and to kind of release the energy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5W6VLhhcdg&t=1832s Rikki Ducornet A Rain Taxi Event Rain Taxi Review of Books. YouTube May 7, 2021 (quote at 30:32 of 1:02:57) ... it's not an accident that the creative imagination is the first thing that's punished when tyrannies take over … Rikki Ducornet : Brightfellow Between the Covers Podcast, YouTube Juyl 22, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlV38ExhNjgI&t=1499s (quote at 24:59 of 1:04:06) External links Author's website Category:1943 births Category:Living people Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Artists from the United States Category:Illustrators Category:Novelists from the United States Category:20th-century poets from the United States Category:Short story writers from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States