Writing Quotes posts feature short quotes by famous authors about writing.
Today’s quote comes from author James Baldwin, who is known for his writings on race relations in America, such as Nobody Knows My Name (1961). Moreover, he was an essayist, The Fire Next Time (1963), and a playwright, Blues for Mister Charlie (1964).
“My father said I was the ugliest child he had ever seen. He told me that all my life and I believed him. And I’d accepted that nobody would ever love me. But do you know, nobody cares what a writer looks like. I could write to be eighty and be as grotesque as a dwarf and that wouldn’t matter. For me, writing was an act of love. It was an attempt to get the world’s attention, it was an attempt to be loved. It seemed to me a way to save myself and to save my family. It came out of despair. And it seemed the only way into another world.”
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