“There’s so much freedom on this blank page,” says German writer Charlotte Gneuss. For Colson Whitehead, known for his novels ‘Nickel Boys’ and ‘The Underground Railroad’, there’s no such thing as writer’s block; “I think it’s really just a problem I haven’t solved yet,” he says.

For the Nobel Prize laureate, Polish Olga Tokarczuk, she simply has too many ideas to cope with them all at once: “I have never experienced a creative emptiness.” For her namesake, Danish writer Olga Ravn, the feeling of innocence that comes from starting something new “is wonderful.”

The video also features Johan Harstad, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Sayaka Murata and Claire-Louise Bennett.

Interviews by Tonny Vorm, Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen, Caroline Albertine Minor, Marc-Christoph Wagner, Nanna Rebekka, and Marie Tetzlaff.

Cameras: Klaus Elmer, Rasmus Quistgaard, and Simon Weyhe.
Edited and produced by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen

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