Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience | Interview | Books | The Observer
Piece of advice to writers from a great writer: stay offline.
- - By César Albarrán
"Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year."
- But, in any case, he is a paper man, not a screen man. "I only read on paper. I don't have an e-reader or an iPhone. I have the best time reading newspapers. I don't believe books are dead. I've seen the figures. Sales of adult fiction are up in the worst economy since the Depression.
All-Nighters: The Posting Hour - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
- Facebook, I’ve found, is the Promised Land for the awake and alone
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