A Writer's Notebook

A Writer's Notebook

Essay Camp

Essay Camp Day 4

Don't hold back.

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Summer Brennan
May 19, 2022
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James Baldwin, photographed by Michael Ochs in 1965.

“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.” — James Baldwin

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