The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
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A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.
One tends to write beyond what's needed.
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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