“So nobody could listen, we always went to the forest and proofread there,” she told the crowd. She would subsequently smuggle her books out of the country to publish them, uncensored, in Germany.”

Nobel Prize winner, Herta Mueller, describing the secretive process of writing in communist-era Romania.

(Via Moby Lives)

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