It's Human To Have A Secret, But

I Often Have To Write A Hundred Pages Or More Before There's A Paragraph That's Alive.

Writing Turns You Into Somebody Who's Always Wrong. The Illusion That You May Get It Right Someday Is The Perversity That Draws You On. What Else Could? As Pathological Phenomena Go, It Doesn't Completely Wreck Your Life.

Sheer Playfulness And Deadly Seriousness Are My Closest Friends.

When I Have A First Draft, I Have A Floor Under My Feet That I Can Walk On. Then, Especially With The Help Of The Computer, Rewriting Is So Easy To Do With The Computer, Much Easier Than It Used To Be With The Typewriter. So The Books Go Through Numerous Drafts.

How Far Back Must We Go To Discover The Beginning Of Trouble?