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Lucky to have writer’s block

26 August, 2010

If you are blessed with the power to write, he wants to say, bear in mind the source of that power. You write because your childhood was lonely, because you were not loved… We do not write out of plenty, he wants to say - we write out of anguish, out of lack. Surely in your heart you must know that.

- JM coetzee, The Master of Petersburg