body snatching

And then Nicole Krauss accused her dear, deceased friend Philip Roth of body snatching, but her words also remind me of my greatness: 

"The best and bravest writers are savage in their self-cannibalisation, and supply their alter egos with the most difficult versions of themselves, filling them with weakness, loading them with humiliations, highlighting their loserdom, their losses, their lostness."