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Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Joy Kogawa

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian novelist Joy Kogawa.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Joy Kogawa

Joy Nozomi Kogawa is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent.

Canadian - Novelist | Born: June 6, 1935

Source: Wikipedia

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life. — © Joy Kogawa

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

Joy Kogawa

Joy Kogawa

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Joy Kogawa

Joy Kogawa

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Joy Kogawa

Joy Kogawa

People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

Joy Kogawa

Joy Kogawa

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