“All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.” LostJourneyLandExileLifelongLong JourneyLifelong Journey Book:An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography Source: An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography
“All writers - all beings - are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.” WritingMatterCoursesLostForceJourneyLandCertaintyCarrieExileLifelongSuccessionExpulsionLifelong Journey Book:An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography Source: An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography
“I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return, living, to the world bring, inevitably, a unique point of view that is a nightmare, a treasure, and a lifelong possession.[It is] equal in its rapture and chilling exposure [to] the neighbourhood of the ancient gods and goddesses.” WorldViewsDyingLonelinessReturnEqualUniqueAncientPossessionPoint Of ViewTreasureNightmareTerritoryGoddessChillExposureLifelongRaptureNeighbourhoodsBefore DeathGods And GoddessesAncient Gods Book:To the is-land: an autobiography Source: To the is-land: an autobiography
