What you don’t want to find out.

 James Baldwin: “When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out

“You’re finding out what you got,” George Saunders says, “and it might not be what you want to have.”

I don’t know if either of these authors are thinking of writing as therapy - I can read them in mdifferent ways. But it strikes me now that these ideas are similar to a mindfulness precept of being open and welcoming to whatever’s there. The latent or self/hidden things. 

And maybe these things are not the daintiest flowers or the emotional world.