ILOKANO WRITERS SHOULD READ CYNTHIA OZICK

I have just completed reading "Rosa", a 32-page fiction by Cynthia Ozick, one of America's best writers. (Started reading "Rosa", one of the stories in PRIZE STORIES O. HENRY AWARDS 1984, in Oscariz while on our way with the Isabela writing group to San Fernando City for the 4th TMI-Global International Iluko Literary Conference. My mouth is watering and saying to this jaded mannurat (that's me): you are nothing, you are still a baby in this writing business. You have no right to say you are a writer, Pedro.