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Aug 2, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
James Baldwin, via @parisreview 1. How to become a writer?
“Write. Find a way to keep alive and write. There is nothing else to say. If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you’re not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you.” 2. Role of talent
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”
"The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway."
Writing process #1
“I don’t sit down to write literature. It is simply this: a writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality.“
