As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly. Paul Rudnick
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The idea that we should "do everything we can to avoid writing" is extremely offensive. Writing is a vital and necessary part of our lives and it is not something we should try to escape. This quote is an example of how much people can take things out of context when they don't know what it means. Writers need time alone in order to write but this does not mean they need to keep their work secret or keep away from people.

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