Sunday, June 8, 2008

Empathy

Yesterday was the birthday of writer Nikki Giovanni who said:

"I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy."

Now, mull that over. 

2 comments:

Lynne's Somewhat Invented Life said...

Humm. Maybe I only have one book in me. Have you sent Lisa your chapter yet? I just re-sent mine.

Damama T said...

Never thought of it that way... But it is true.