I had forgotten how writing rearranges a person. How it is both a retreat and a reaching out, a way of carving space where there is none ~ such an apt sentiment
"A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, 'Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.'"
“I write through the quiet, through the discomfort. I write about vanishing, about coming back, about how a person finds their place again after feeling lost for so long. The words don’t come easily, but they come. And maybe that is enough for now.”
You're last paragraph really resonates. Maybe that is it. We write to say, "I am here."
Thanks so much, so happy that this resonates with you.
I had forgotten how writing rearranges a person. How it is both a retreat and a reaching out, a way of carving space where there is none ~ such an apt sentiment
Very Steinbeck...
"A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, 'Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.'"
Thank you kindly 💕
Lovely … this struck a chord:
“I write through the quiet, through the discomfort. I write about vanishing, about coming back, about how a person finds their place again after feeling lost for so long. The words don’t come easily, but they come. And maybe that is enough for now.”
I’m glad you are writing again. I can relate to how you describe the solitary space writing makes, and the feelings it engenders.
Thank you so much, me too.