Abdulrazak Gurnah, author of 'Afterlives' - 2021 Nobel Prize winner discusses distractions, why reading is as important as writing, and needing blank walls
Writer's Routine
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How to Know When It's Time to Write Again
When to write was not always my decision, entirely excellent. It also defended on the availability of headspace and just simply the space to be unoccupied as well with teaching and associated activities. The reason that there are cats, which is quite fine with me, I'm not troubled by that, but the reason they are gapped because I really had to wait for the time. And then I find it hard to write and then I would drive fiction. So those are the lighting terms. To some extent, my writing was driven by those sorts of cycles and availability and so on.I didn't write during some time. I didn't allow as well my time to be competed over the seminars
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