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People often ask me if I discipline myself to write, if I work a
certain number of hours a day on a schedule. They ask this
tion with envy in their voices and awe on their faces and a sense
of alienation all over them, as if they were addressing an armored
tank or a talking giraffe or Niagara Falls. We want to believe that
5 other people are natural wonders; it gets us off the hook.
Now, it happens that when I wrote my first book of prose',
I worked an hour or two a day for a while, and then in the last
two months, I got excited and worked very hard, for many hours
a day. People can lift cars when they want to. People can recite
What’s the main idea?