My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.
I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.
Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space. . . to be bathed in. . . epiphanous delight.
Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.
I am coming from an older school, and I feel that you must learn to wait. There is that essay which was about the great notion of sitting on the mountain and waiting for the muses to cross the stream, and give you the symbols that would allow you to create. The word wait seems to me to be terribly important.
You are obviously writing out of experience and so the boundaries are always blurred, it is just that sometimes it would seem that you are playing with fire a little bit by choosing someone that obviously existed.
It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.
I'm very nostalgic, and I spend a lot of time in the past, in my mind. That's part of my challenge, and what I really want to do is, I want to be present. I want to leave that in the past. When I say nostalgic, I mean my own life. I spend a lot of time reflecting on my past and not being able to process time.
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Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.