Recently whilst walking home I thought to myself that my reserved observer style personality is one of my great strengths as a writer; it is one of my assets. For too long have I shamed myself over this, for too long have I wished I could be more sociable. But last night I realised that plunging too headlong into the rivers of experience is a threat to any writer–it is necessary to detach, to hold a part of oneself back in order to evaluate and make sense of life and establish a narrative to the world. For this is the task of the writer.
March 12, 2009...1:32 pm
The task of the writer
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