what I know from experience: that writing is a vocation and… - Julia Alvarez

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what I know from experience: that writing is a vocation and a practice over a lifetime, with its ups and downs. It teaches me humility, the great democracy of each time having to start over.

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Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist.

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