Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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Goethe in Italy (artist: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein)

Every writer has to begin somewhere. One little, timid step in the dark, then the next, one word after another, filling half a page.

I started writing fiction early. I have been creating stories since I was eight years old, but not because I dreamed of becoming a novelist someday. I didn’t even …

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