“Both reading and writing are, then, acts of supreme faith. They are both, in essence, a call to grace, a belief in the miraculous – that we might come to see through stories what we had not previously seen, that we might come to understand what had, before that moment, remained uncertain, undefined. The mask of fiction, of writing and reading stories, does not, in the end, disguise our faces but instead reveals who we really are. In the end, I think, stories acknowledge life’s difficulty and sadness but insist that we go on anyway, that we always hold to our faith, to our belief in grace.”
– John Gregory Brown
It’s very hard for me to say what writing is or isn’t. I just keep trying to approach the natural, authentic voice, rather than the contrived one. I’m only an egg.
Mmmmmmm.🙂