Disability strips away complacency. Affliction is brutal, but it can also push vital questions to the fore. The afflicted body becomes a site of otherness, confusion, isolation, watchfulness, longing. One becomes keenly aware of the impersonality of brute matter, but… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and reconsider. To… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
One of the beautiful things about writing is that it offers an inner life that's disciplined and at the same time wild. Not in… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
Disability strips away complacency. Affliction is brutal, but it can also push vital questions to the fore. The afflicted body becomes a site of… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
Images work on so many different levels. As a writer you feel them, try not to get in their way or narrow them down… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
Writing involves an acceptance of being on the margin, the threshold, a galvanization out of received notions into a more activated, kinetic, often perilous,… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
“So much of life is invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings, outward events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses strongly present even to… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
