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I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together.

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.