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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
-Marianne Moore
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One Writes Because One Has A Burning

Marianne Moore
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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[raymond roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. this is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. it is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. one tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing.
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