Gillian Welch interviews Lydia Peelle in BOMB mag.
on writing, when it is pain:
LP: "The thing is- you've got to do it. You've got to just get something down. If I've done that, then I know I can go on with the rest of my day and do all the other things I do. Writing that one page- or even that one paragraph or sentence- is the one sacred part of the day. That's the sacred act; everything else is simply profane. I don't feel like anything else I do is all that worthwhile."

> Gillian Welch's Wreching Ball [ LISTEN ]
> NYTimes on Lydia's Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing "Her powerful first collection of stories, ... depicts the modern American South as a civilization that has pushed disastrously to the edges of everything."
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"Writing is but the slow, snail-like creeping of words, climbing, laboriously, over a little structure that resembles the thought: meanwhile the mind has gone on and on, here and yonder and back and out again. Thought is the most rapid agency in the universe"
Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings , Louis h. Sullivan.
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*REASONS FOR AND ADVANTAGES OF BREATHING