On discomfort and writing:
“If you feel comfortable, then something has gone wrong… With any project I always have the sense that I am not a good enough writer to write the book I want to write. But then the only way to become a good enough writer to write the book I want to write is to write the book I am trying to write.”
— Paul Harding
— Paul Harding
“If you don’t feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn’t very vital.”
— John Irving
— John Irving