“Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.”
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?