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When Do We Give Up on Writing?

Plato versus Patrick

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Elif Shafak
Oct 06, 2024
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School of Athens, Raphael

I am on a book tour for my new novel There Are Rivers in the Sky.

It is a strange pendulum, a writer’s life. You spend many hours and weeks and months in a space of solitude, chatting with imaginary characters, worrying about a single word or a comma, drinking cold coffee, cutting your own hair, day and night mostly in your pyj…

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