Sally Kohn: Are you tortured by the blank page or do you know how to like get yourself moving every day? Kohn: I'm pretty tortured all the way around. She says writing takes such profound trust, even as it also takes or exacts from you complete doubt. "You can't just sit down and write and have that work perfectly all the time"
Peggy Orenstein is a journalist and author. Her latest book is Unraveling.
“The challenge is… to not want to say, I need to know what the book is about. I need to have my chapters. I need to know what exactly I'm looking for. Because it's really scary to just go out and report and have trust that there's going to be interesting things and that if you just keep going, you're going to find them. So to not foreclose possibility and options and ideas is the biggest reporting challenge for those sorts of books for me.”
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