“Try as we might, we write what we write”
“Most writers might as well write in invisible ink, because if what they’re writing is forgettable, it might as well be invisible too.”
“The act of writing, it seems to me, makes up a shelter, allows space to what would otherwise be hidden, crossed out, mutilated. Sometimes writing can work toward a reparation, making a sheltering space for the mind. Yet it feeds off ruptures, tears in what might otherwise seem a seamless, oppressive fabric.”
“Have tea, might write,” Laura returned.”
“At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.”