On Not Being Found
Some artists identify so closely with their own work that were they to cease producing, they fear they would be nothing — that they would cease existing.
David Bayles, Ted Orland • Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
By writing fiction I have discovered some surprising things: for example that describing memories does not necessarily bring them to life. It can be the opposite: in the process of writing fiction I have overwritten some of my own memories. The act of writing has replaced them with something different, and I’ve effectively lost some of my own
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