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Cormac McCarthy famously said he didn't read Proust or Pound, because to him that wasn't literature, and it wasn't what he wanted to write. There are lots of ar
by unalone 17y ago
Cormac McCarthy famously said he didn't read Proust or Pound, because to him that wasn't literature, and it wasn't what he wanted to write. There are lots of artists who famously didn't do much work, because they preferred only to work when they were inspired.
The moral is that it's possible both to be good and hardworking and good and not quite so obsessed.
- jrockway 17y agoNeither of these are "show up in an office at 9am, work for 8 hours, go home at 5, not think about anything work-related for 16 hours, repeat", however.