Alasdair Gray...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.
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The imagination can be a powerful tool, but it can also be a negative one. There are certain moments in life when writing feels too hard to do. These are times when you are so stressed out, so unhappy, so sick of the world that you want to give up on everything and retreat into your own mind. You feel that if you can’t deal with the real world then you should just get back to the hellish one that you’re imagining.
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