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I didn't become a writer to write about me.
-Salman Rushdie
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I Didn't Become A Writer To Write

Salman Rushdie
I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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If you want to be a writer, write. write and write and write. if you stop, start again. save everything that you write. if you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. write. writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.
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I say "on principle" [regarding 'lesbian writer'] because whenever you get one of your minority labels applied, like "irish writer," "canadian writer," "woman writer," "lesbian writer" - any of those categories - you always slightly wince because you're afraid that people will think that means you're only going to write about canada or ireland, you know.
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It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. you might say, "read," but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. or, "don't read, don't think, just write," and the result could be a mountain of drivel. if you're going to be a writer you'll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think, "there must be something else people do," you won't be able to quit.
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No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. if you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. a born writer has self-knowledge. read, read, read. and if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. every writer is first a wide reader.
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Of course i'm a black writer... i'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and latin american writer aren't marginal anymore. we have to acknowledge that the thing we call "literature" is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. the melting pot never worked. we ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the hasidim to walter lippmann, from the rastafarians to ralph bunche.
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