Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The roo…

Bell Hooks
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Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away. ✨ bell hooks (2013). remembered rapture: the writer at work, p.35, Macmillan
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