Great words

Found this quotation through the Bookslut blog, another one of my almost-daily Internet stops.

They're Annie Ernaux's words, from an essay about her on The Second Pass:

"Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people."

I love finding quotes about writing that resonate with me, inspire me, and validate my own creative choi...