Sunday, August 26, 2007

Writing requires, for me, not only the actual time when I am writing, but a span of time for dreaming, taking notes, reading, meditating in the bathtub, walking alone.

That peripheral time is just as crucial.

Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun
- interview extract from Salon Travel .

2 comments:

ren powell said...

Oh! I feel so much better now.

Di Mackey said...

Oh, I'm glad that you do.

I remember a writer once explaining that even when she was looking out the window, she was often still 'working'.