Margaret Atwood on the Identity of the Writer when not Writing...

Margaret Atwood on the Identity of the Writer when not Writing...

“What is the relationship between the two entities we lump under one name, that of ‘the writer’? The particular writer. By two, I mean the person who exists when no writing is going forward, and that other, more shadowy and altogether equivocal person who shares the same body and who, when no one is looking, takes it over and uses it to commit the actual writing.”