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Writing Quips and Tips
Well, we don’t do it for the money…
Novelist Pat Conroy apparently doesn’t write happily.
He commented recently that his wife, Cassandra King, an aurhor of popular novels, was a “much happier writer” than he was.
“I’ll hear her cackle with laughter at some funny line she’s written. I’ve never cackled with laughter at a single line I’ve ever written. None of it has given me pleasure. She writes with pleasure and joy, and I sit there in gloom and darkness.”
It’s an odd thing, writing. I suppose my “happiest” book was my first. There were no expectations. No-one (including myself) expected me to finish writing it, and I spent many happy hours making up “When my book is published” daydreams.
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