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It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.

I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum.

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.