What I TRY very hard to do is have an hour or so in the MORNING when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to HEAR myself think. Because honestly for the REST of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.
Read MoreThere's a BIZARRE prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an IDEA that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
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