It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

I really don’t know how it is done. Writing, all writing, is tired up with the unconscious. You remember that Henry James spoke of the long pole that stirred the unconscious: the longer the pole, the more you seemed to move away and the shorter the pole, the closer you came. It is almost as if you were asked which arm you used to lift an object when, of course, you really wouldn’t know unless you were conscious of how and why you lifted it.

An Evening with Lillian Hellman, Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 7, April 1974, p.34