Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.
You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.
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 something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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