I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.
I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.
I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.
I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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