Status Updates From A Horse at Night: On Writing

“…I am not, it turns out, a purist. The art of being alone, for many of us, is best appreciated within its limits.”
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“Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual.”
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“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

I recently learned that literary talent is an intelligence of its own. This book is a great example of glimpsing directly into the mind of someone who does. How lovely is it to be able to think how a writer does, to be able to put words of the experience of reading and visualising that could only be felt before. How wonderful it is to realise that it is all a conscious effort by the author to invoke certain feelings