James Baldwin on Writing - Via Brain Pickings

From 2016, an article that appeared in my Facebook feed today:

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.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/02/08/james-baldwin-advice-on-writing/