When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.
Interpretation
Writing allows the author to externalize memories and emotions, providing a way to process and release them.
In this quote, Jorge Semprun expresses the therapeutic power of writing as a creative act. By putting memories into words, they become a physical entity, allowing the writer to reflect on and ultimately detach from those experiences, turning intangible emotions into something concrete and manageable.
In practice
A writer sharing their personal struggles during a speaking engagement.
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. Itβs as though I could fly.
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
I knew that I was 'interesting' at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.
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