The Dream I Will Return To

I am really enjoying A Broom of One's Own. It's straightforward, good writing, also funny and real.

"It helps to get up earlier than my conscious mind..." she writes regarding early morning writing.

Or she'll drop a gem with ease, like "We don't read fiction for reality, we read fiction for truth."

More?

"Stories want to be born, but they aren't attracted to the form that they take. A story is just as content to be told orally, as it is to be written. If I go around telling it to everyone, it's happy and gone... On the one hand I want people to be interested in my work, but on the other hand I don't want to talk about it... Every day I have to pull myself out of the dream that I know I will return to. I have to shake off a world that is as real to me as my own kitchen..."