TERESA CADETE

As writers, we have to experience some resilience out of our worldly condition, which provides us with all the stuff that we may need for our literary creation. We all know both extremes: on one hand, writers who are always taking notes, on the other hand the ones who trust the remains of their memory as raw material for creation - of course together with all information we can get from printed and digital archives. All this proves us that even if we know that we can never be islands, isolated from the environment, yet there are moments when we have to do as if we were islands, in order to close ourselves in our workshops to produce the drafts of our books. And in the next moments we leave that enclosure in order to communicate again, not only to recharge our batteries, but also to see how our new works interact with the public - as children that come from us but for which we cannot be responsible any more. And it is ok like that.