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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
-V. S. Naipaul
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If Writers Just Sit And Talk About

V. S. Naipaul
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I have a hard time writing. most writers have a hard time writing. i have a harder time than most because i'm lazier than most. [...] the other problem i have is fear of writing. the act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why i think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. all the time i'm not writing i feel like a criminal. [...] it's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. especially when it goes on for years. it's much more relaxing actually to work.
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The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. don't get too comfortable and don't really listen to anybody else. don't stand around with a bunch of writers and talk about writing. you know when you see plumbers at a plumbers convention, usually they're not talking about plumbing: they're talking about whatever it is that two men happen to talk about. they're talking about sports, their wives and children. i just tell my students, don't talk about writing too much, just go out and do it. find out whatever you need to get to the mainland.
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You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk r-rated. i mean i've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. when a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on tv. unless it's cable.
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