From my Australian galpal at www.introvertedblogger.wordpress.com:
Carlos Fuentes, You were wrong. Writing is not a struggle against silence. It is a struggle to stop everyone else being loud.
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A Word to the Wise
An anonymous WordPress writer posted that she felt as though her creative side were leaving her. Reading her lament, I was pierced with pain. I have been in that horrible place where someone or something suppresses or supersedes the drive to create, to use the gift placed inside you; that suppression spot is a dark place, where the song within is damped, snuffed, squashed.
In response to any who find their flame squelched, their voice silenced, their muse derided, I say the following:
One day in the long ago, I awoke to find myself lost. My lips were sealed by hands unknown. I could no longer sing, or write, or dream. On that day, I knew I must leave the land of the lost. I must leave quickly or I would die from the inside out.
Creating is as vital to life as breathing. When either stops, life suspends. If you are ensnared by something or someone who is binding your lips, your mind, your muse, run from the darkness toward the light. Run as though your life depends upon it. Very likely, it does.
Fay Moore: I Want To Be a Writer 