The Wrong Question

Figen Tosun

“Writing is a curse that saves.” It is a curse because it forces and drags, like a painful vice from which it is impossible to get free. And it is a salvation because it saves the day that is lived and that is never understood unless it is written.

Is the writing process difficult? It’s like calling difficult the extremely prolific and natural way a flower is made.

I can’t write while I’m anxious because I try my best to make the hours pass. Writing is to prolong time, divide it into particles of seconds, giving each of them an irreplaceable life.

Writing is to use the word as meat, to catch what is not-word. When that non-word, the interline, bites the flesh, something was written. Once you’ve fished the midline, you can easily get the word out.

— Notes on the art of writing, Clarice Lispector

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An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

— Marion Woodman

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Everything is alive. What we call dead is an abstraction.

— David Bohm

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We’re so unconsciously dependent on definitions and abstractions we don’t realize how they fix our lives like butterflies to an imaginary cosmic…