enduring a lot
6th March 2017 | for Creatives | creative process, awards, writing, KEEP CREATING, artists must EXPERIENCE, Viet Thanh Nguyen |
"It took me 20 years of writing before I could write [Pulitzer Prize-winning] The Sympathizer. I got to that point by writing a lot, reading a lot, and enduring a lot."
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