the sun sets and the sun rises

In 2012, Arnon Grunberg wrote, "I stopped dying the moment I started writing, and I’m not referring to some possible posthumous fame or literary immortality. Literature doesn’t deny the darkness but it’s always a way out of the darkness."

I've known this for sometime—that writing is a life source. The problem is, when darkness falls, you wish to do very little. A "way out" doesn't appeal, or perhaps doesn't seem worth the trouble or effort. But people who make good art know darkness well. Sometimes it's a matter of coming back to what we already know; reviving ourselves in our truths. I stopped writing, and I started dying.

I'm here to write again. Not to deny the darkness, but to find a way out.