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Alex Martin – How Writing Changes The Writer

Illustration by Fran Pulido of woman by window thinking what to write with book birds flying past window.

19 May, 2020
Alex Martin

Observing and imagining so intensely gives writers an infinitely absorbing mental life which can isolate us from others. Observing and imagining so intensely gives writers an infinitely absorbing mental life which can isolate us from others, and in extreme forms, come close to madness.

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