The works of Philip Roth have caused a lot of controversy, but it would be hard to deny that the following excerpt from his novel The Ghost Writer is a very detailed and accurate description of the writing process:
I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on the sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning. And if I knock off from this routine for as long as a day, I’m frantic with boredom and a sense of waste.
What do you think? Is this how you’d describe your writing process? What drives you to write?
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