Norman Ohler: belief

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…Yeah, the whole scroll. Yeah. …in this typewriter, so he was just writing. And I can imagine that you can write a hell of a lot on amphetamines. I do it sometimes, but not a lot, you know. So I can take amphetamines and have a really good time and write, like, 20 pages, but then the next day, I wouldn’t do it anymore. But he decided, “Okay, for 14 days, I’m going to do it.” Philip K. Dick was an amphetamine writer. Also, I think if you take a lot of amphetamines, you get into kind of psychedelic spaces at a certain point in time where you start hallucinating. Like, if you write Blade Runner, maybe it helps you. So amphetamines are also… they can be creative, I guess. It’s just not, it’s not my type of drug. And they’re certainly not as creative as… But it also depends on the person. Like, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, he was drinking a lot, or Hemingway was drinking a lot, and they could only write when they’re drunk. When I’m drunk, I can’t write. I just can’t do it. Write drunk, edit sober.…

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