One writes out of one thing only: one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one has examined one’s experience.

Novelist, essayist, civil rights

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Interview with The Paris Review

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1984

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https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2972/james-baldwin-the-art-of-fiction-…

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