Adichie: Stereotypes and ‘The Single Story’
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are
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James Baldwin on the Purpose of Writing
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature
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Amy Tan on Writing as a Gift
“Writing is an extreme privilege but it’s also a gift. It’s a gift to yourself and it’s a gift of
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Toni Morrison on Inspiration for Writers
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
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Fuentes on Writing Against Silence
“Writing is a struggle against silence.” —Carlos Fuentes What does Carlos Fuentes mean about writing against silence and how is
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Doctorow on Research
I’ve known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it
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Oscar Wilde on Reading
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help
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Truman Capote on Promoting Your Book
” A boy has to peddle his book.” One week after the publication date of Migrations and my mind has
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George Orwell
On the process of writing a book “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with
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Sandra Cisneros
On Latinx Writers and Publishing “My weapon has always been language, and I’ve always used it, but it has changed.
