I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time – when I woke up in the morning when I went to sleep at night – and that went on for eight years.
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.
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Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.