May 8, 2009
I fight everyday for a scrap of time to think and I enjoy defying circumstance and what feels, some days, like the impossibility of ever writing a word. Isn’t this struggle common to most every writer on earth? It turns the blank page into a sanctuary and it turns writing into necessity. It turns the imagination. Mine is like a skeleton key and, so far, it opens everything.

Steve Scafidi is the author of Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer and For Love of Common Words


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