Like many writers, I feel centered when I write, or it might be better to say, when I don’t write, when I can’t write for whatever reason, I feel, frankly, de-stabilized. It’s dangerous for me not to write.
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Sigrid Nunez
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Pat Steir, Imagine, 1977, ink on paper, 22 × 22”.
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Winter 1983
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