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Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

Writing in a strict form can surprise you.

I try very hard to write in a very orderly and continual disciplined manner.

I don't just write letters. I write laws.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.