Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know wha…

William S. Burroughs
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2001). Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997, Semiotext
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