Nikki Giovanni Quote

I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

Black Women Writers at Work (1983)

I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want ...

I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want ...

I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want ...

I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want ...