"I write for myself and strangers. The strangers dear Readers are an afterthought.

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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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"You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say ...
"I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
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