9 Outtakes from James Baldwin's Paris Review interview - Rolf Potts
James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
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James Baldwin had more basic counsel. He told The Paris Review: “Write. Find a way to keep alive and write. There is nothing else to say. 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.” There follows Baldwin’s recipe for a career: “Discipline, love, luck,
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.... See more
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.... See more