It's one part curiosity, one part mechanics, and one part stubborn determination, the legendary New Yorker writer tells interviewer Peter Hessler in the Paris Review. "Stories are always really, really hard," McPhee says. "I think it’s totally rational for a writer, no matter how much experience he has, to go right down in confidence to almost zero when you sit down to start something. Why not? Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you."
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