The childhoods of writers are thought to have something to do with their vocation, but when you look at these childhoods they are in fact very different. What they often contain, however, are books and solitude, and my own childhood was right on track.
Margaret Atwood β’ On Writers and Writing
I hate the terrible twos - not because it's difficult and stressful emotionally/ sonically - but because it's clearly the result of an intelligent creature not being able to express its needs and therefore being constantly denied them without understanding precisely why - it seems very obvious this is where a lot of weird mental blocks/ irrational... See more
π¦ππππΎπx.comThe novelist Nicholas Delbanco has remarked that by the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs as a writer of fiction: love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt, fear of death. The writerβs business is to make up convincing human beings and create for them basic situations and actions by means of which they come to know themselves
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