ciphergoth comments on Rationality quotes: October 2010 - LessWrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 24 October 2010 05:46:51AM 4 points [-]

Marijuana is death on writers. I’ve seen several go that route. Typical behavior for a long time marijuana user is as follows. He gets a story idea. He tells his friends about it, and they think it’s wonderful. He then feels as if he’s written it, published it, cashed the check and collected the awards. So he never bothers to write it down.

Alcohol can have the same effect.

-- Larry Niven

Comment author: ciphergoth 24 October 2010 10:10:43AM 3 points [-]

I think there are legitimate questions about the advisability of marijuana, but this is a claim for which counterexamples are plentiful. Alan Moore springs to mind.

OTOH "you only tell your story once so do it on paper" is also in Dorothea Brandt's "Becoming a Writer".