Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.
From Francine Prose
I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.
I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.
I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasn't going to support me.
Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.
I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.
I'm in a rage all of the time.
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