Tobacco Is The Opiate Of

Many Of My Books Have Begun With The Title, Because Naming A Work Already In Progress Makes No Sense To Me.

You Are Just In The Middle Of A Struggle With Words Which Are Really Very Stubborn Things, With A Blank Page, With The Damn Thing That You Use To Write With, A Pen Or A Typewriter, And You Forget All About The Reader When You Are Doing That

But I Do Not Have The Reader In Mind When I Write. No True Writer Does That

When I Write, The First Blank Page, Or Any Blank Page, Means Nothing To Me. What Means Something Is A Page That Has Been Filled With Words.

Writers Rush In Where Publishers Fear To Tread And Where Translators Fear To Tread