In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching
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In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching
I came here to write. I’d known I wanted to be a writer before I knew how to read, but after college, I found myself only writing copy for advertising agencies that sucked all creativity out of me. Life was so expensive and politics so erratic in Turkey that all of my attempts at literary writing were shut down for one reason or another, each time
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Poetry and Ambition
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Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of writing because it is praised in the classroom or otherwise carries appealing prestige, they are vastly increasing the risk inherent in taking up writing in the first place. It is so easy to misjudge yourself and get
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1. The lone path to being a good writer who writes good work is by writing your way there. You’ve got to fight your brain and conquer the excuses it throws up,. You’ve got to defeat your family obligations and your self doubt and your fatigue and the washing up. You can’t just take the eagles to a more convenient point on the map of that journey. T
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