frenzy and lightning

"You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: She wanted storms." ~Anna Akhmatova

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Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means… What is going on in these pictures in my mind?
Joan Didion, in her 1976 New York Times article, “Why I Write,” (full PDF), which begins: “Of course I stole the title from this talk, from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write… I stole the title not only because the words sounded right but because they seemed to sum up, in a no-nonsense way, all I have to tell you.” (thx, @ambercadabra)

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