Read Edwidge Danticat's brilliant, insightful collection of essays, Create Dangerously today. In it she writes:
"Creating fearlessly, like living fearlessly, even when a great tempest is upon you. Creating
fearlessly even when cast lot bo dlo, across the seas. Creating fearlessly for people who see/watch/listen/read fearlessly. Writing fearlessly because, as my friend Junot Diaz has said, 'a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.' This is perhaps also what it means to be a writer. Writing as though nothing can or will ever stop you. "
More of Junot Diaz's thoughts on becoming a writer here.
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