Reginald Hill na seção Why I write do Guardian:

How do you survive being alone in your work so much of the time?
You are never alone with a novel. The characters become as real to me as real people. But I don't shut myself away, incommunicado. I've got my laptop in front of me and you've just interrupted me in mid-sentence. I'll finish that sentence, but I will never be sure that it's sentence I'd have written if you hadn't phoned at that moment. That is part of the excitement of writing.

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um pouco de sensatez para aquela frescura de "uh, preciso me fechar para o mundo quando vou escrever." sempre achei isso tudo uma grande bobagem.