Quotes: Eula Biss

"In the August humidity, I feel a rising euphoria. I recognize this as the aura that precedes the work of writing, like the aura that precedes a seizure or a migraine. An idea is hovering before me, spectral and electric. The idea is just slightly out of reach and I will spend hours at my desk before I can grasp it, before I can work it on the page." 

–– Eula Biss (b. 1977), American non-fiction writer and professor 

Source: Eula Biss. Having and Being Had. New York: Riverhead Books, 2020; p. 213.

via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2022, p. 81.