Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
– Anne Lamott
Tag: ourselves
Quotable 413
Haiku has this rather fantasmagorical property: that we always suppose we ourselves can write such things easily.
– Roland Barthes