Maria Popova quotes Mary Gaitskill on the sources of the writer's muse, including this vivid passage: "It's why children like to draw pictures of houses, animals, and Mom; it's an affirmation of their presence in the corporeal world … For years, everything just pours into you, and all you can do is gurgle or scream until finally one day you can sit up and hold your crayon and draw your picture and thus shout back, Yes! I hear! I see! I feel! This is what it's like!"
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