the art of writing
Brie Wolfson and
the art of writing
Brie Wolfson and


Beautiful, on writing
BALDWIN: When you are standing in the pulpit, you must sound as though you know what you’re talking about. When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.
the secret to good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.
- Richard Harding Davis

"When I'm writing a first draft, I'm just putting sand into a bucket, so I can build the sandcastle later."
The one practice I kept was writing. It made the cut because I can’t deny how many good things in my life have come as a result of my putting words out into the world. It also felt like a respite: one area where I wasn’t skeptical of my identity. I’m at my most courageous on the page because interrogating my feelings with words feels justified and
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