Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.
Jeanette Winterson
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Mmmm that's a good one. I've got quite a collection of Winterson quotes. She is so wise, even her wildest fiction has moments of blinding truth.
I especially like this because I tend to get very very hot when I think very very hard. And sometimes when I'm writing something that's really flowing, really lively on the page I get even hotter than when I'm thinking. And now I wonder if that's the 'molten stuff' she mentions.
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