“As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It’s a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.”
Of course, my life is vastly different from this. I tend to eat trail mix and watch America’s Next Top Model. But the truth remains: Watching a writer write would be grisly.
(Thanks to Ron for the link.)
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Exactly right! I keep telling people that the only reason I watch shows like Jeremy Kyle and Ricki Lake – and avidly read the Daily Mail from cover to cover is because I’m RESEARCHING!