The Blank Page

The deal between me and the typewriter was simple: When I sat down at it, it was ready for anything. It had no idea what was going to happen next and neither did I, what appeared on the page could be good or not good, could turn out to be a story or peter out into a dead end, but whatever wanted to appear, the machine made visible.

Elizabeth Tallent, Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism, 2019