You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
I like writing that puts the needle right into the vein. I don__ think, when I__ writing, __ell a good story_ or __ind a meaning._ I__ thinking phrase by phrase, make it tight, make it good. Get the idea out in language I can bear. I think there__ something musical about being impatient with boring sentences__t__ not that I don__ have boring sentences, God knows I do, but I__ impatient with them.
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I like writing that puts the needle right into the vein. I don__ think, when I__ writing, __ell a good story_ or __ind a meaning._ I__ thinking phrase by phrase, make it tight, make it good. Get the idea out in language I can bear. I think there__ something musical about being impatient with boring sentences__t__ not that I don__ have boring sentences, God knows I do, but I__ impatient with them.
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