Ralph Wessman at Famous Reporter talks with Jane Williams

Quote:
"For me honouring writing and the compulsion to do it means believing in writing as valuable and valued work - to believe what I do is of use ... And often this is a tall order. Writing, we know, is a solitary process, there are often conflicting loyalties at play and 'art as work' isn’t a comfortable concept in a producer/consumer driven society. It’s not as easy to acknowledge the process of writing as work the way it is say the process of building of a house. You can watch somebody at work building their house day in day out and appreciate the process on the same level you might appreciate the finished house. Watching somebody writing or
rather in the process of writing would inevitably entail periods of witnessing the writer ‘away with the faeries’ staring at the blank
sheet/screen/wall or apparently nothing at all! "

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http://walleahpress.com.au/FR36Williams.html

Jane Williams' website is at http://janewilliams.wordpress.com/