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I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My concentration seems very short.
As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.
I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
