Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.
I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.
I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?