Toni MorrisonEverything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
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In the world of publishing, a writer who restricts himself to a narrow subject will remain an unknown unknown. A writer who writes about all kinds of subjects will become known internationally. This is because there is such a large market for such writing. There are readers who like the same things as others and there are more readers who like all kinds of things.
The first kind of reader is the one we want to impress with our writing, but we can’t do that without having something interesting to say on more subjects than one. One way to accomplish this is to write about all kinds of subjects and thereby make oneself known on more than one subject at a time.
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