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Marguerite Duras: Wipe things out

December 5, 2014December 5, 2014 - by India Writes Network

When it’s in a book I don’t think it’ll hurt any more …exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. ― Marguerite Duras, …

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Mark Haddon: Writing is like being gay

November 30, 2014November 30, 2014 - by India Writes Network

I don’t remember deciding to become a writer.  You decide to become a dentist or a postman.  For me, writing is like being gay.  You finally admit that this is …

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Colm Toibin: Of Hidden and Difficult Things

November 22, 2014 - by India Writes Network

I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I …

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Harper Lee: Of Divine Discontent

November 22, 2014November 22, 2014 - by India Writes Network

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent. – Harper Lee

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Anais Nin: Creating a world of one’s own

November 8, 2014November 8, 2014 - by India Writes Network

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which …

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Roald Dahl: No master except his soul

November 6, 2014November 6, 2014 - by India Writes Network

 A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why …

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John Green: Home amid suffering

November 6, 2014 - by India Writes Network

I believe there is hope for us all, even amid the suffering – and maybe even inside the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probably. It’s my attempt to …

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Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Being more intimate with myself

November 3, 2014 - by India Writes Network

Why am I compelled to write? . . . Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I …

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Sylvia Plath: Order life in sonnets

November 1, 2014 - by India Writes Network

I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can’t be satisfied with the colossal job of merely …

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Nicole Krauss: Rephrasing the world

November 1, 2014 - by India Writes Network

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the …

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