How writers cultivate confidence through eclectic reading, interdisciplinary curiosity, intellectual nomadism, and deep listening beyond written texts.
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For me to be able to feel that kind of confidence, I do a lot of learning beforehand. So I read a lot, I research a lot and I listen a lot. I try to become a learner in life.
Tell me about listening, what do you mean? Well, to me this is very important. I think writers, we writers need to be two things. Excuse me, all our lives. We need to be good
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So many of those who dedicate their careers to creativity have, like many of us, been motivated by a sometimes unconscious desire to reconcile the various contradictions of our era: between utility and transcendence, a yearning for greatness and a belief in the dignity of the everyday, between the work available and the work we want to do.