Reading to another human being is more naked than reciting to the wall. It closes the gap between what you believed you wrote and what you really wrote. It allows you to hear yourself, mirrored from the silent mind of the listener.

Reading to another human being is more naked than reciting to the wall. It closes the gap between what you believed you wrote and what you really wrote. It allows you to hear yourself, mirrored from the silent mind of the listener. — Natalie Goldberg