November 2010
2 posts
“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I’ve always...”
– Edwidge Danticat’s Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
On domestic distractions
When I sit down to write, it is the small household tasks, or the sound of the doorbell or telephone, which torture me. I can be rid of the telephone by pulling the cord from the wall, but the door … am I to rip the door from the wall?
—Nawal El Saadawi’s “Memoirs from the Women’s Prison” Pg 1