As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
Novel writing wrecks homes.
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.
I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
When I get an idea, I start to write like I was electrically motivated.
Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what I have is a mess.
Once I start writing, I can't stop.
When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night.
I write manically.
I think, taking too long to work on a record, you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour, and I write, and I write.
I go in and out of season. I won't write for months, and then all of a sudden, I'll write like I've got a fever.
People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is writing a novel right now. No one wants to revise.
I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.
