Writers are people who write. By and large, they are not happy people. They're not good at relationships. Often they're drunks. And writinggood writingdoes not get easier and easier with practice. It gets harder and harderso that eventually the writer must stall out into silence. The silence that waits for every writer and that, inevitably, if only with death, the writer must fall into is angst-ridden and terrifyingand often drives us mad. So if you're not a writer, consider yourself fortunate.

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