I think that this is why I relish writing
for you so much. It makes it
possible for me to be not like I am, but as I desire for Little Igor to see
me. I can be funny, because I have
time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when I
perform mistakes, and I can be a melancholy person in manners that are
interesting, not only melancholy.
With writing, we have second chances.
You mentioned to me that first evening of
our voyage that you thought you might have been born to be a writer. What a terrible thing, I think. But I must tell you, I do not think
that you understood the meaning of what you said when you said that. You were making suggestions of how you
like to write, and how it is an interesting thing for you to imagine worlds
that are not exactly like this one, or worlds that are exactly like this
one.
It is true, I am certain, that you will
write many more books than I will, but it is me, not you, who was born to be
the writer.
~Jonathan
Safran Foer
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