“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human condition.”
New York Times (January 8, 1981)
Source: Ways of Escape
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“The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.”
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