“At best, the life of the writer, properly understood, is a quest for clarity and understanding in which every fresh start feels like an outrageous gamble against impossible odds.”
From an article in The Observer by Robert McCrum on literary survival.
This McCrum quote is the best!
But I think we could go further: it looks to me as though the education we're put through is an exercise, all too often, in confusion.
In turning us away from our own experience and from belief in what we observe for ourselves, it directs us towards submission to the voice of authority.
Writing's the rickety ladder we use to climb out of this trap. If we can catch hold of it . . .
Posted by: Mary Hamer | 21 July 2011 at 02:54 PM