Writing is about walking ghosts

• Thu, Jul 16, 2026
• One-minute read

Deborah Levy:

All writing is about walking ghosts. Or perhaps the ghosts walk the writer. Towards our parents or something like them. Towards our siblings and lovers and friends or something like them. Towards the unknown. Towards the edge of a cliff.

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, p. 215

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