Cette citation est attribuée à l'auteure française Nancy Huston, extraite de son essai 'L'Espèce fabulatrice' (2008), où elle explore les liens entre narration, identité et expérience humaine.
"Writing, like love, only makes sense if one accepts losing one's footing. Leaving the shore. Leaving solid ground, sinking into the river water, letting oneself be carried away. Of course, there is a risk to take: in love, as in writing, one can lose one's skin."