• Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

    Terry Eagleton: Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.
    Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons