The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot’s turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm’s blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.
~ writer Annie Dillard
Photo credit: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Studio photograph of an alligator on table." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-580c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99