“Writing is only reading turned inside-out.”
John Updike
Lately I’m more of a consumer than a creator.
I’m stuck in a loop of reading books and watching shows, rather than living an authentic life of my own.
So when I do turn my insides out and try to write, there’s not much original I can say. I draw on memory. I write about sense input. I make mash-ups from others’ work.
My writing has become very short. Aphoristic. Yet it limps on.
What are your thoughts on the quote?
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