Follow-up to my last post:
"Reading deprivation casts us into our inner silence, a space some of us begin to immediately fill with new words---long, gossipy conversations, television bingeing, the radio as a constant, chatty companion. We often cannot hear our own inner voice...above the static...If we monitor the inflow and keep it to a minimum...[o]ur reward will be a new outflow. Our own art...will begin to nudge aside the sludge..."