Many novelists use alcohol to help themselves write--to calm their anxiety, lift their inhibitions. This may work for awhile, but eventually the writing suffers. The unhappy writer then drinks more; the writing then suffers more, and so on.
Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, June 21, 2004
Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, June 21, 2004
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