Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. You can get away with an awful lot. One of my children once said - it was a terrible truth, too, and, of course, it had to be a young child who said this - "Dad is always hiding in his book."
E. L. Doctorow, on thw writer's participation in his work
Art of Fiction in Issue 101, Winter 1986, The Paris Review
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