The Write Advice 218: DORIS GRUMBACH

 

Talk uses up idea, although others have told me that they find it profitable to talk out their ideas and plans for a story because it clarifies their intentions.  Not I.  Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke.  Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.  Sometimes I am lucky.  In the internment process, they often multiply and become more complex.

 

Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir (1994) 

 

 

 

 

Use the link below to read The View from 90, a 2011 essay about solitude and the aging process by DORIS GRUMBACH:

 

 

http://theamericanscholar.org/the-view-from-90/

 

 

 

 

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