Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
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Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.
I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.
I don't believe in writer's block.
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