Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
Being able to write becomes a ...
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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.
