Q: How Do You Crank Up to Write?
A: “Discipline.” John Updike did it all the time, Richard Ford did it early in the morning, Nathaniel Hawthorne did it nonstop, Philip Roth and Thomas Wolfe while standing, and Jane Kramer while cooking.
I do it with Stephen Elliott.
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