A Writer's Wit: Severa Sarduy

I write only in order to make myself well. I write in an attempt to become normal, to be like everybody else, even though it's obvious I am not. I am a neurotic creature, a prey to phobias, burdened with obsessions and anxieties. And instead of going to a psychoanalyst or committing suicide or abandoning myself to drink and drugs, I write. That's my therapy.
​Severa Sarduy
Author of Beach Birds
Born February 25, 1937

S. Sarduy

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