‘Writing fiction belongs more to the sleeping, than the waking world, so I try not to surrender myself to the day until I am finished.’
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‘The first thirty percent of the story usually takes up about seventy percent of the time I will spend on the first draft in total. ‘
‘Letters, notebooks and diaries testify to an ability to write with tolerable coherence without prior planning. Everything else has me pacing…’
‘I decided enough was enough. I was going to write this novel in the right order, starting at the beginning.’