
Writing is What Happens While You’re Busy Making Other Plans
Making beauty, or deriving pleasure (two expressions of the same thing), where one shouldn’t: that’s what makes the beauty, brings the pleasure. I do my best work when I shouldn’t.
Making beauty, or deriving pleasure (two expressions of the same thing), where one shouldn’t: that’s what makes the beauty, brings the pleasure. I do my best work when I shouldn’t.
Mortification is the defining emotion of my childhood. I don’t mean to say I was unhappy, but I think it’s true that the psychological impact of mortification (by which I mean a kind of lingering, self-inflicted embarrassment) is uniquely acute.