"The first thing that begins to happen when you begin taking yourself seriously as a writer is this imaginary writer’s block that people talk about, but I never really suffered from. But there’s this barrier between the spoken word and the written word, once you set something down in writing it’s supposed to be set in stone or you take on this funny attitude that writing is unnatural…"
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On the writing process in ““FRANK CHIN: HIS OWN VOICE” in the Bloombury Review (September 1991)
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