Joanna Walsh
“What I mean is I’ve always wanted to leave. What I mean is I’ve always needed a reason, not only to leave where I was (if you get where I’m coming from) but an idea to travel towards.”
Read More“What I mean is I’ve always wanted to leave. What I mean is I’ve always needed a reason, not only to leave where I was (if you get where I’m coming from) but an idea to travel towards.”
Read More"I’ve been thinking about disguises. The glam impulse to dress up can be rooted in the fact that in some other role you play, you must dress down."
Read More“I am writing from a place of the synchronous and the overlapping, from the lost-to-time and the prescient.”
Read More“I sit on a rotten bench by the river Wensum in Norwich, at the edge of early old age.”
Read More“But what to do when you’re hopeless at everything? Oh I’d so like to step out of myself, to stop plugging away in myself the way sheep, dogs, crows, carp and all the other animals do in their own ways; to be you or at least someone else.”
Read More“Now the familiar river coast in Buenos Aires, with its failed infinitude, the leaning trees, the murky waters, belong to the past. You have moved out, but the equation still needs to be satisfied.”
Read More“I take a stroll down to Big River Estuary and sit to watch the cold-water swimmers. They are all women. I know this because they meet here every day, put up their grey hair, fit it into red swim caps, and jump in the water as if nothing that cold is going on.”
Read More“I learned to enjoy the changing color of the landscape and the musical velocity. Maybe the horizon is the point where imagination and desire begin.”
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