Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.
I'm not the kind of writer that can write eight hours a day... I'm the kind of writer that the more time I have, the less efficient I am.
I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.
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