Love, the world/ Suddenly turns, turns colour.

"In the movies, writers are always balling up pieces of paper and staring moodily into the corner as though they were struggling to read a teleprompter. Sheesh. Writing is a completely internal activity. Watching someone write is pointless. Reading is where all the action is. You are moving your mind across someone else's, like a snail, like a long kiss.

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My own experience has been that it's not pain that makes art. If art were simply a response to pain, there would be a lot more art. I think that art is the result of inquisitiveness, mingled with a deep desire to make things be."

-Audrey Niffenegger

I realise it is slightly obsessive to post two entries from the same author in a row, but since you've let me do it, i'll let you think im obsessive.

Reading interviews with authors i've read is my new procrastination activity. Audrey Niffenegger talked about how Henry and Clare kind of fell into her head one day and from there it was a matter of discovering more about them, rather than creating them as characters. I wish i could pull people and stories out of wherever it is they come from, that strange place we can't get to.