Lucasta Miller – Loneliness And The Writer

Working on a book can be gruelling. The feeling that you’re writing into a void can spawn an imagined readership of crippling inner critics Working on a book can be gruelling. The feeling that you’re writing into a void can spawn an imagined readership of crippling inner critics — and make it harder to nurture the two qualities that a writer needs above all: self-discipline and self-belief.

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