16 September 2022

From Hilary Mantel

Wordly Inspiration from Hilary Mantel, searching for trust that I will still be a writer when I can return to these pages.

"Of course, writers find it difficult to trust themselves. It can seem such an inflated claim, that you are a writer. So you think you have to keep proving it, by persecuting paper with ink or pounding the keys, as if you need a self-justifying witness to your own strength of purpose... You can’t measure your productivity day-to-day in any way the world recognizes."

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2 September 2022

From Ursula Le Guin

Wordly Inspiration from Ursula Le Guin to help me hold it together while I do flood recovery work instead of writing. I like to think the ideas are scouring through some of the vast silences while I paint the walls. 

"One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience. There are always areas of vast silence in any culture, and part of an artist’s job is to go into those areas and come back from the silence with something to say." 

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