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• Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
• So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.
• I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to…
• I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
• Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing…
• If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
• The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements…
• Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract…
• ...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion…
• Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
• Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.
• Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...

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