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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

Seamus Heaney
Writing, Self, Empowerment
"In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.