I think (at least hope) I will get writing soon. It’s not that I haven’t been thinking. I am continuously revolving thoughts and images in my mind. When I finally put pen to paper, the result may startle some of my colleagues, because I shall do a good deal of the writing in the form of short paragraphs full of images and metaphors. It will look more like poetry than physiology. But I am persuaded that that is the only way I can begin to express my thoughts without doing violence to them (or to the subject)

– Oliver Sacks

Sometimes you capture a passage, only because you like it. Letters is a delight. The genre of letter writing books is underrated, and with AI (sometimes I hate writing that) might be even more valuable.

Sacks, Oliver. Letters. Edited by Kate Edgar. New York: Knopf, 2024. pg205