This is what I call productivity: not tools, not theories, but a writer writing. I have adored Jane Austen since I read her line that “pictures of perfection make me sick and wicked” and here she is, superbly telling a guy where he can shove his ideas for her next book:

“I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life”

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