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What are you burning?” On a glance, just some papers.”I write in a journal.” He spoke below his breath, so that his words weren’t quite for me. “Because I like to see everything written down. So that I know it really happened. That I wasn’t just making it up. Then I read it and memorize it. And then I have to destroy the hard evidence.”I thought of my own journal, the muddle of every page. All those unfiltered, lunatic letters to Sean Ryan.”What is it, exactly, that you need to destroy?””Everything that I don’t want to be true.

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

…at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn’t otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

Margaret Atwood

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

What are you burning?” On a glance, just some papers.”I write in a journal.” He spoke below his breath, so that his words weren’t quite for me. “Because I like to see everything written down. So that I know it really happened. That I wasn’t just making it up. Then I read it and memorize it. And then I have to destroy the hard evidence.”I thought of my own journal, the muddle of every page. All those unfiltered, lunatic letters to Sean Ryan.”What is it, exactly, that you need to destroy?””Everything that I don’t want to be true.

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

…at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn’t otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.