‘But how about, for example, writing to find out about what you don’t know? Or writing as a job in itself? Shades of meaning crowd round every piece of advice I ever received. I never took anything as truth, only as something to think about. ‘
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‘I write wholly for you, and a craven need for your approval, but at the same time I do not actually care what you think. ‘
‘I was playing. I take play very seriously. I was wrapping prose around poems, then freeing the poems.’