We all get habituated, right? You get up in the morning, have your coffee, and read your newspaper, and thatโs great. Everybody loves life in its mundane, daily aspects. Itโs what makes us feel secure. But I also start to go numb a little bit and I donโt see whatโs around me. So I put myself in a new situation and suddenly Iโm really seeing the person next to me, hearing music, and Iโm smelling, and I canโt help but want to write it down.
Dorianne LauxJoseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the day. He probably reads ten books to my two and writes twice as much as I do.
Dorianne LauxI also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.
Dorianne Laux