During her lifetime, Maya Angelou, the great author and poet, was nominated for a Pulitzer, awarded the National Medal of Arts, given over fifty honorary degrees and wrote the acclaimed memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. And yet, Angelou, like countless other famous writers, experienced periods of writer's block. How did Angelou handle being stuck? As she once explained, "What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat.' And it might be ...
During her lifetime, Maya Angelou, the great author and poet, was nominated for a Pulitzer, awarded the National Medal of Arts, given over fifty honorary degrees and wrote the acclaimed memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. And yet, Angelou, like countless other famous writers, experienced periods of writer's block. How did Angelou handle being stuck? As she once explained, "What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat.' And it might be ...
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