Joy Williams on Why Writers Write
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Joy Williams on Why Writers Write
That’s what a journal asks of a writer. Show me yourself.
“The person who really writes the minor work is a secret writer who accepts only the dictates of a masterpiece.
This passage is one of the truest statements I’ve encountered about the nature of authorship. You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen—it becomes distorted, a
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