12 October 2014

At The Beginning

"At the beginning, 
I experienced writing 
as a sort of constraint. 
Starting so young 
as a writer is pitiable, 
it is beyond your powers, 
you have to lay bare things 
that are very heavy, 
and you don't have 
the means for that. 
When I recently looked 
at my early manuscripts, 
I was struck 
by the absence of space, 
of breathing room. 
I have always felt like 
I have been writing 
the same book 
for the past 45 years." 

~ 2014 Nobel Literature prize winner Patrick Modiano :)




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