“If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.” - Kurt Vonnegut Fellow literature nerds will know that just by naming this piece “Why I Write,” I am inviting ...

It could be a symptom of psychological disorder — “making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons” — but that’s how Orwell describes his own beginnings (“the lonely child’s habit”) ...

I write because I am terrified of forgetting. Not the mundane forgetting of where I placed my keys or what I ate for breakfast, but something more profound — the forgetting of who I was at a ...

In the fabric of our existence, the future is not some distant, separate entity; it’s intricately interwoven within our narratives. Each narrative strand we spin, each word we choose, bears the latent ...

If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...

This essay is excerpted from The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison, a recently released collection of essays from Haymarket Book and PEN America. Edited by PEN America’s ...

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