"All these writers were welcomed by other writers. It seemed to follow that you needed such a welcome, yet before this could happen you somehow, anywhow, had to meet the writer who was to welcome you. My idea of how this worked wasn’t low or even practical. I never thought about making connections. My aspirations were mystical. I wanted to receive the laying on of hands that had written living stories and poems, hands that had touched the hands of other writers. I wanted to be anointed."
“Old School”, Tobias Wolff (2003)
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