This is important to writing. . . that is, it is important....

“ This is important to writing. . . that is, it is important to my own writing. This. . . is landscape! Mine. This dirt came from the prairie where I was a child. I played in it, dug in it, planted in it, and walked over it. It is where I began. And all my writing begins with a landscape such as this. A place. ”

Patricia MacLachlan

From : Word After Word After Word