I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and … - Robert Caro

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There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Robert Caro

I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always getting myself tired by working in the afternoon and then I was just throwing out what I wrote in the afternoon, so writing then was counterproductive.

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