stories you read…

Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at, night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

ben okri

dirty book

orwell…

Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even the most arrogant female writer has to work overtime to build an ego that is robust enough to get her through January, never mind all the way to December.

deborah levy