I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.