"Something that irritates you and won’t let you go. That’s the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."
Much of that self-revelation, Baldwin points out, happens not during the
first outpour of writing but during the grueling process of rewriting.
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