Miranda Seymour: I Used To Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

A gloggy Christmas to all

Why write?

From George Plimpton’ s The Writers’ Chapbook (Viking, 1989):

I can’t do anything else. I have always regretted getting involved with literature right up to my neck. I would have preferred to have been a monk; but , as I said, I was torn between wanting fame and wishing to renounce the world.  Eugene Ionesco ( 36)