A 25-year-old bestselller author who doesn’t even like writing
” You rarely hear writers talk about the editing process,’ he says. ‘But editing is everything. The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciating. It’s like the difference between having a crush and a marriage. Crushes come easily, they’re intense, and you want to have them as much as you can. But then, with a marriage, it’s like, OK, what does this person’s farts smell like? “
Jonathan Safran Foer, in: The Observer
[x]#183 fan zondag 2 juni 2002 @ 12:13:23
