James Baldwin on Writing

“One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.”

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“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”

“Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.”

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“If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.”

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