Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?
It takes a child to say the unsayable.
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life
My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.
Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
