NP Mosley on writing

[Doug Millison]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/070300mosley-writing.html
For Authors, Fragile Ideas Need Loving Every Day
By WALTER MOSLEY

"[...] Sleep comes to you each day, and so does the muse.  She comes 
softly and quietly, behind your left ear or in a corner of the next 
room. Her words are whispers, her ideas shifting renditions of 
possibilities that have not been resolved, though they have occurred 
and reoccurred a thousand times in your mind. She, or it, is a 
collection of memories not exactly your own. [...]  Nothing we create 
is art at first. It's simply a collection of notions that may never 
be understood. Returning every day thickens the atmosphere. Images 
appear. Connections are made. But even these clearer notions will 
fade if you stay away more than a day. "
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