The Chessboard and the Naked Man

"Every time I sit down to write, I am a beginner... I sit down to write something that I do not know what it will be, and I write, specifically, to know what it is, what I am writing, and only I can write it, alone and no one else. That is why you sometimes see me spending whole hours, and days, searching for the right word and the formulation of a phrase. I do not want to repeat things that have been said, even if I am the one who said them, but unfortunately, this is what happens sometimes. That is why, when I write, I must forget what I have learned, and edit From malice, from the ideas they imposed on me, and finally from everything that could limit my freedom of expression.I try every day to regain this state of purity... to be born again every morning... I do not claim that I can always do so, but I try... because I have just come into this world."Fernando Sabino