Writers secretly want interruption to rescue them from their own stalled work

Evidence

We all want interrupting, saving from ourselves, from the sentence, the paragraph, the chapter that’s going nowhere: at least, going nowhere on that particular day. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 42

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reading purpose on writing craft—this reframes the Person from Porlock as a productive force rather than a nuisance. — connects to: Writers can treat unfinished drafts as pending work rather than failures. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 65; Writer’s block is really a fear of committing to one narrative path — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 44; Deliberate sideways projects let writers sidestep a blocked main work — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 42 (+1 more)
• SEED: Could yield an essay on the productive value of interruption in creative work.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 42