Status Updates From A Horse at Night: On Writing

I have liked Amina Cain's fiction and am delighted to find that I love her nonfiction. Reading this in the morning is very good for me; what better way to start the day than a thoughtful, expansive, conversational consideration of sentences, of solitude, of fiction as a concept.

“…I am not, it turns out, a purist. The art of being alone, for many of us, is best appreciated within its limits.”
and
“Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual.”
anddd
“I write to see what is inside my mind. For me, it is often far better, healthier, than recording what I know is already there.”

“One reads or writes a novel like one goes out to walk in the heat, or into the rain, to buy the persimmon and the butter.”

I’m starting this again because I’m ready to focus now