Sounds Like Portraits

Hermione Hoby, writer: “writing is the most joyful struggle.”

07.19.2018 - By Sounds Like PortraitsPlay

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When I sat with Hermione, she used a description in J.M. Coetzee’s novel Elisabeth Costello. It’s about a writer who finally says she is a secretary of the invisible. She said: "Just seeing that phrase, it brings tears to my eyes.”

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