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why do you write?

I write because I always haven’t in a while and there’s a guilt that comes with that though I don’t know where it comes from.

Oliver Stone · 2026-05-28 16:30 · 2 claps · 0.4 min read
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why do you write?

I write because I always haven’t in a while and there’s a guilt that comes with that though I don’t know where it comes from.

Letting down a version of me that once saw myself in playwrights, pullitzers poems, perhaps.

I write so the dream doesn’t die, doesn’t become something I failed at, something I gave up on.

I write because it never ceases to amaze me how I always think to myself when i’m done: “where did that come from?”

Right now for instance.

Who is behind these speedy guilt-ridden fingers?


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