Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolute undivided attention is prayer.
“Writing is that activity that makes me feel alive in a context that would like for me to be dead. So writing for me is always a form of dissent, voting with my feet, so to speak. I would prefer to sit and write to doing what I had every opportunity to do: make money.”
Curtis White