Maggie O'Farrell
What I Wish I'd Known
Is Convalescence a Part of Being a Child?
Marcel Proust was also bedbound for a year as a child. And he always thought that that's what made him able to write in the membranes of things past. I think it probably was instrumental in me being a writer, partly because at that age, your brain is developing so many different directions. All these neurons and synapses firing in different ways. A lot of all that sort of neurological energy,. if you're forced to lie in bed for a year, goes into sort of mental or literary or whatever, here imagination. Because that's all you've got. You're trying to do that. So that was also what I was. Also spending a lot of time on
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