"To write, I decided, is to be insane. In ordinary life you look sane, act sane-just as any mother of five children. But once you start to write, you are moonstruck, out of your senses. As you stare hard inward, following behind your eyes the images of invisible places, of people, of events, and listening hard inward to silent voices and unspoken conversations-as you are seeing a story, hearing it, feeling it-your very skin becomes permeable, not a boundary, and you enter the place of your writing and live inside the people who live there. You think and say incredible things. You even love other people-you don't love your children and your husband at all. And here is the interesting thing to me, when this happens, you often learn something, understand something that can transcend the words on the paper." *This is a quote that a friend found in a book. The book was about writers during the early 1900s. I do not know who the author is. If you know who the author is, I would happily give credit. Image by andreas160578 from Pixabay
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I don’t particularly like this perspective on writing because it seems insensitive to those with mental health issues.
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I meant no offense, Audrey. 😦
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Oh, I know you didn’t, Penny. I’m just stating how I felt after reading this. We’re good.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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