💬 A brief conversation with @annahavron inspired me to look up this wonderful Joan Didion quote:
Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ... What is going on in these pictures in my mind?
From "Why I Write" by Joan Didion. Originally given as a speech at her alma mater UC Berkeley, then published in the New York Times Book Review, December 1976. Currently collected in Let Me Tell You What I Mean, Knopf Publishing, 2021.
I love Joan Didion's writing.