The freedom to imagine that as yet unimaginable work in fro… - Alexander Chee

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The freedom to imagine that as yet unimaginable work in front of others, moving them to still more action you can't imagine, that is the point of writing, to me. You may think it is humility to imagine your work doesn't matter. It isn't. Much the way you don't know what a writer will go on to write, you don't know what a reader, having read you, will do.

Alexander Chee

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Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.

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