Unraveling Secrets: Benjamin Hale on the Mysterious Disappearance That Haunts the Ozarks
At one point, after she’d read the book, Jane basically made the exact same argument against that provocation that you just made. And she made it so eloquently I can’t help but quote her email here (and I’ll probably have to ask her permission again to include this in Hippocampus — boy, is this getting meta!): “A child left in a room with crayons will draw, whether or not the drawing is going to be looked at by anyone else. When I wrote as a child, I hid the poems under the mattress and showed them to no one — not family, not teachers, not friends. And so I will say that art can be made out of wanting to see, to feel, to work through, to find… not only of wanting to be seen. I will guess that this is one of those introvert/extrovert distinctions — the extrovert artists do want their work to be in dialogue with someone else; for the introverts, that isn’t the primary thing.”
