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Continue to ChatAs a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope a reader will find something of it when the work is complete. But I do try to figure out where in their experiences certain characters of mine, who are not necessarily readers, and certainly not writers or artists, find an equivalent sensation: of delight, of astonishment, of whatever it is that briefly - and brevity seems essential - reassures us, connects us, sends a shiver of inarticulate recognition down our spines: Oh, yes: life. - Alice McDermott from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/as-a-writer-i-m-too-busy-and-worried-to-experience-the-delight-while-composing-my-own-work-although-of-course