“Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.”
“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.”
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”
“As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.”
“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.”
“One Reads to Experience Life, But one Writes to Live...”