#drew larson

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He supposed Franzen had had a point about the time before writing a novel actually began. It was a good time, because everything you saw and heard was possible grist for the mill. Everything was malleable. The mind could build a city, remodel it, then raze it, all while you were taking a shower or shaving or having a piss. Once you began, however, that changed. Every scene you wrote, every word you wrote, limited your options a little more. Eventually you were like a cow trotting down a narrow chute with no exit, trotting toward the -

"No, no, it's not like that at all," he said, once again startled by the sound of his own voice. "Not like that at all."

- Drew Larson in ‘Rat’ from If It Bleeds by Stephen King (p. 367) 🐀

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