Ryszard Kapuściński Quote

The experience was an exciting one for me. It illustrated that writing was about risk—about risking everything. And that the value of the writing is not in what you publish but in its consequences. If you set out to describe reality, then the influence of the writing is upon reality.


A 1989 interview with Granta magazine founder Bill Buford. Reprinted in Adbusters Magazine #71.


The experience was an exciting one for me. It illustrated that writing was about risk—about risking everything. And that the value of the writing...

The experience was an exciting one for me. It illustrated that writing was about risk—about risking everything. And that the value of the writing...

The experience was an exciting one for me. It illustrated that writing was about risk—about risking everything. And that the value of the writing...

The experience was an exciting one for me. It illustrated that writing was about risk—about risking everything. And that the value of the writing...