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I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

One writes what one can, or has to, write.

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.