Anne Elizabeth Moore
I never have writer's block the way that some describe it, although I have lately come to embrace something Susan Sontag said once in an interview: that it's just as important to sometimes not write as it is at other times to write. I am beginning to believe, in other words, that if you "can not" write—or do not want to, or can't find a way to, or feel blocked—then you should probably do something else. This notion that a writer *must* *always* *be writing* is very Western, I think, and excessively masculine. Who cares if something gets left unexpressed? The Buddhists might argue that it was probably not worth expressing anyway.
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