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I write very slowly.

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

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

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.