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Why Writers Write
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/28/mary-gaitskill-writing/
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1. To satisfy a basic, fundamental need. I think all people have this need. It’s why children like to draw pictures of houses, animals, and Mom; it’s an affirmation of their presence in the corporeal world. You come into life, and life gives you everything your senses can bear: broad currents of animal feeling running alongside the particularity of thought. Sunlight, stars, colors, smells, sounds. Tender things, sweet, temperate things, harsh, freezing, hot, salty things. All the different expressions on people’s faces and in their voices. For years, everything just pours into you, and all you can do is gurgle or scream until finally one day you can sit up and hold your crayon and draw your picture and thus shout back, Yes! I hear! I see! I feel! This is what it’s like! It’s dynamic creation and pure, delighted receptivity happening on the same field, a great call and response.
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Mar/1/2014, 5:09 pm
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Re: Why Writers Write
This site is a real find, libra. So many enticing links to follow. For example, I've been thinking about Italo Calvino of late, and there he is along with everyone from Elizabeth Gilbert to George Orwell.
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Mar/3/2014, 9:10 am
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