"I'm sure my daughters-in-law can't imagine a retreat so complete and dull-seeming as those years of shopping and cooking and cleaning and waiting in the school playground. They're right, probably. Though there's something to be said for all that slow invisible work the mind does when it isn't buoyed along by anything outside."
I can relate to this. This is my situation in life right now and I can attest to the fact that there is plenty going on inside. It's just that most of the time I'm not aware of it. I like hearing about older writers. It gives me hope that someday, i might me able to do it too. And I agree totally with that quote about short stories. They do give the writer a lot more freedom than a novel.
But it is not just the quotes that I liked. You write so very well about the book and the author that I want get the book and read it now, even though I almost never read fiction.
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Date: 2014-02-14 05:56 am (UTC)I can relate to this. This is my situation in life right now and I can attest to the fact that there is plenty going on inside. It's just that most of the time I'm not aware of it. I like hearing about older writers. It gives me hope that someday, i might me able to do it too. And I agree totally with that quote about short stories. They do give the writer a lot more freedom than a novel.
But it is not just the quotes that I liked. You write so very well about the book and the author that I want get the book and read it now, even though I almost never read fiction.