Interesting Peek At How Some British Writers Work

On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/26/authors-secrets-writing

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Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer - and if so, why?
Bennett Cerf