GEORGE MARQUES

“Maurice kept writing, though. It’s hard to stop, once you’ve acquired the habit. On the page, he could say things he didn’t seem able to say out loud. It was calm there, and in his control. Once he told a friend, “I write essays, and because nobody reads my essays, I send them as letters to people.”
― Sophie Elmhirst, A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck