"I did not look on my work as therapy, and still don’t. . . it occurred
to me that the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might
otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By telling stories, you objectify
your own experience. You separate if from yourself. You pin down certain
truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly
happened, like the night in the shit field, and you carry it forward by
inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to
clarify and explain. (158)"
From "Notes" by Tim O'Brien in The Things They Carried
From "Notes" by Tim O'Brien in The Things They Carried
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