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Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 30, Evelyn Waugh

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INTERVIEWER

I gather from what you said earlier that you don’t find the act of writing difficult.

WAUGH

I don’t find it easy. You see, there are always words going round in my head: Some people think in pictures, some in ideas. I think entirely in words. By the time I come to stick my pen in my inkpot these words have reached a stage of order which is fairly presentable.

via Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 30, Evelyn Waugh.

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