Open Up a Passageway
1st July 2016 | for Creatives | magic/mystery of creating/art, writing, Dean Young |
"To open windows in these notions that get passed down to us about what reality is and what we're capable of—that's what keeps me going. That's what makes me write every day—waiting and hoping and trying to make that happen: to write something that seems to open up a passageway into something else that we can't understand, but has a presence, feels utterly important and true."
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