Commonplace: Write, Don't Speak; Being Known

"I felt on the verge of talking to her about things I hadn't talked about before. I'd written about them. Sometimes I write to keep from going crazy. There's a world of things I don't feel free to talk to anyone about.

But Joanne is a friend. She knows me better than most people, and she has a brain. Why not talk to her? Sooner or later, I have to talk to someone."

-- Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower, ch. 5

-- Commonplace quote, 21 August '25

Link to Austin Kleon on Commonplace Diaries:  https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/inside-my-commonplace-diary