For a long
time, my manuscripts remained in my drawer, awaiting an authority that would
consider them sufficiently good to be printed. Why? Because I kept them secret.
Before I had ever submitted them to an editor, I imagined this “authority”
would certainly refuse my texts, so I condemned them to silence in advance. And
yet, author and authority come from the same
Latin word auctor which has many meanings, including “that
which makes something grow; founder, creator, instigator and… authority.” Thus,
was I the authority?
Yes, it is I,
the author, who decides what is worthy or not, what will be shown, shared or
not. I give myself this approval, this imprimatur that I formerly sought
outside myself, because I am the one who sows a seed on the paper, who grows
words, paragraphs, books. To create is to accept that the course of the writing
is not known in advance, since it is not copied from any other; it is entirely
new. Ah, and I forgot, auctor also means "one who
approves." I would say I approve.
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