If You’ve Forgotten How to Write, Read This. - by rach

“Writing, for me, is almost another way of reading, except one level deeper. Almost as soon as I began to read — and I read very early — I began to write” — Donna Tartt, the writing life. (2021, June 25). Grazia d'Annunzio. rivistastudio.com. I wasn’t writing much when I picked up The Goldfinch. Not the kind of writing that feels like something. Not the kind where you finish a sentence and sit back, quiet for a moment, thinking, yes, that’s what I meant to say, even if I didn’t know it yet. I’d been stuck in the kind of stillness that doesn’t feel restful. Not blocked exactly, just… muffled. I had drafts in my head and half-sentences in my Notes app. But nothing brave enough to be shared. Nothing shaped enough to hit “publish.” Then came The Goldfinch and somehow, it cracked something open. I don’t know how to explain it except to say: the writing made me remember what language can feel like. It was so lush, so patient, so unashamed of going on and on about beauty and pain and time and

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