Leah Sookoo’s Reviews > The Writing Life > Status Update

The obverse of this freedom, of course, is that your work is so meaningless, so fully for yourself alone, and so worthless to the world, that no one except you cares whether you do it well, or ever.
You are free to make several thousand close judgment calls a day. Your freedom is a by-product of your days' triviality.

Putting a book together is interesting and exhilarating. It is sufficiently difficult and complex that it engages all your intelligence. It is life at its most free. Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it because you select your materials, invent your task and pace yourself