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Fifteen years ago it was much harder, because I didn’t know how to get started. Everything I wrote seemed like it had all been said before.
I begin a work by reading. I read without trying to strain myself. Rather, I try not to commit things to memory. The strain, the attentiveness—they simply get in the way. One should read serenely, just looking at the book.