If a writer’s ego ever wilts, he is ruined. It is the only thing that can sustain him through those lonely months while he is trying to piece together a book out of one recalcitrant word after another. Every morning he has to persuade himself, all over again, that putting words on paper is the most important thing in the world…that he has something to say which thousands of people not only will listen to, but pay for…Only an egomaniac can believe these things, for they defy all the evidence.
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