Kurt Vonnegut on writing process

"The messages that come out on the typewriter are very crude or foolish--misleading--but I know that if I spend enough time at the typewriter the most intelligent part of me will finally make itself known and I will be able to decode what it is trying to talk about... Very feeble signals, but intelligent ones, are coming from somewhere, and I can refine those if I am willing to spend boring day after boring day meditating on them and opening myself to them. It's slow work and it's not much fun, and it looks stupid to me; a stupid way to spend days."

-Kurt Vonnegut interview with Franck Mclaughlin 1973. Pg. 73 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut.