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Reading, Then Writing?

Reading, Then Writing?

If you read and write, write and read, you know that one leads to the other.

At least it does for those of us that bend that way.

I can’t count how many times I have read something and been mad.

Muttering to myself: “Why didn’t I write that?”

I have thought that frequently reading Hemingway, and McCarthy, of course.

It starts with reading, and then I need to write something, just to get it all out.

And I hate the trade-off.

“What a drug this little book is; to imbibe it is to find oneself presuming his process. I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself. It is not mere envy but a delusional quickening in the blood. Soon abstracted, the book slips off my lap and I am off, diverted by the calloused heels of a young lad delivering loaves.”

–Patti Smith, M Train

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