[url=http://imdb.com/title/tt0042593/]Mildred Atkinson: It must be WONDERFUL to be a writer!
Dixon Steele: [sarcastically] Oh, thrilling![/url]
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Corpses are no longer decaying in many German cemeteries. Instead, the deceased become waxen, an uncanny process that has become so rampant it can no longer be ignored.
It was the Summer Solstice of 1983. The last piece of original work that I had written, The Stone Book Quartet, was finished in the summer of 1977. Six years had gone by in silence. There had been nothing to add. "When may we expect the next novel?" said my publisher of the day. "When it's ready", I said, and got on with not writing.
Fortunately for my nervous system, I had never given much credence to the notion of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait."With The Stone Book Quartet, I had emptied my well, and nothing could be done until the water table was restored. And that is where I was at the Summer Solstice of 1983, until 2:30 p.m., when the well became a gusher. [...]
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