Quote: from Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life, by Sofia Samatar

 

"I don’t want to reject confessional writing outright, I wrote to you, but it’s a tricky mode for works received as black or feminist texts. . . I’m less interested in “what happened to you” than the transmission of a feeling, something breathable and contagious, a vast, raw, untethered emotion, that’s how I want to be seen and how I want the writers I love to be seen, not for the self but for the ecstasy, the writerly ecstasy, caught and passed on like an electric discharge.”

    --Sofia Samatar, from Opacities

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