All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the la…

Jean Rhys
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All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.
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I have tried, I said, but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now (it is always too late for truth, I thought). ✨ Jean Rhys (1966). Wide Sargasso Sea
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death. ✨ Jean Rhys (1 … ▶
I am the only real truth I know. ✨ Jean Rhys, Isak Dinesen (1978). Women Fiction 2
that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.
And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did? ✨ Jean Rhys (2001). Wide Sargasso Sea, Gardners Books

All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

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