INTERVIEWER
This relates to what you once said, that "books are not life, only its ashes." Do you still believe that?
YOURCENAR
Yes, but books are also a way of learning to feel more acutely. Writing is a way of going to the depth of being.
Marguerite Yourcenar: The Art of Fiction No. 103, Interviewed by Shusha Guppy, in Women at Work: Interviews from the Paris Review
This relates to what you once said, that "books are not life, only its ashes." Do you still believe that?
YOURCENAR
Yes, but books are also a way of learning to feel more acutely. Writing is a way of going to the depth of being.
Marguerite Yourcenar: The Art of Fiction No. 103, Interviewed by Shusha Guppy, in Women at Work: Interviews from the Paris Review
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