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“Sometimes I imagine that writing is a survey I carry out, asking everyone I encounter, in reality or in fiction: How much of your life is lived to be known by others? To be understood? How much of your life is lived to know and understand others?”
“The paranoia I felt then is the same fear that has always been with me. Anyone reading one’s words is able to take something from one. Had I been more disciplined I would have written nothing and lost nothing.”
“… and a lie sustains life with absoluteness that truth fails to offer.”
“I have no doubt — can this be an illusion? — that the conversation I have with myself, however linguistically flawed, is the conversation that I have always wanted, in the exact way I want it to be.”
qtd. Katherine Mansfield on Virginia Woolf — “She was one of those women — one of those women who still exist in spite of everything.”
“In retrospect little makes sense — perhaps all stories, rather than once-upon-a-time, should start this way.”
“You must protect yourself, a friend warned me. But to write one has to give up protection fundamentally.”
“The paranoia I felt then is the same fear that has always been with me. Anyone reading one’s words is able to take something from one. Had I been more disciplined I would have written nothing and lost nothing.”
“… and a lie sustains life with absoluteness that truth fails to offer.”
“I have no doubt — can this be an illusion? — that the conversation I have with myself, however linguistically flawed, is the conversation that I have always wanted, in the exact way I want it to be.”
qtd. Katherine Mansfield on Virginia Woolf — “She was one of those women — one of those women who still exist in spite of everything.”
“In retrospect little makes sense — perhaps all stories, rather than once-upon-a-time, should start this way.”
“You must protect yourself, a friend warned me. But to write one has to give up protection fundamentally.”