A lot of people say that you have to do this before you do that, but that’s just nonsense. What you have to be able to do is know what it is you’re about, and then get there. That’s all you need to know. You only need the technique to do what you want to do; people tell you that you need that other stuff, but you don’t.
“When I write it’s almost as if I’m in a waking hallucination even though I’m aware that I’m consistently dealing with certain kinds of motifs, like the cosmic egg, or twins, or monkeys, or the problem of power. The only thing that’s different is that, having done it before and survived, I know I can do it again. Psychologically, then, it’s easier; from a technical standpoint, it’s not. If anything, there seem to be more challenges.”
Rikki Ducornet