Ann Beattie’s 7 Truths About Writers
When I get home I put on my writing sweater, which is warm and wool and rarely dry-cleaned. Then my favorite pair of yoga pants. Then a pair of wool socks and Ugg boots. If you don’t smell like a wet sheep, you aren’t really writing.
7. Writers wear atrocious clothes when writing. So terrible that I have been asked, by the UPS man, “Are you all right?”
—from the New Yorker’s Book Bench blog to mark the publication of her new book, Mrs. Nixon
