The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
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Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
I always write in pencil, so I can erase.
I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.
I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate.
If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: 'Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press.'
Sometimes a manuscript is like bread dough. You have to abuse it.
I don't want my writing to be recognized.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
With pencil, you can always erase.