Substances and Writing Substance

One more from Brenda Ueland:

“I used to drink coffee all day and smoke two packages of cigarettes. I could thus pump myself up to write all day and much of the night, for a few days. But the sad part of it was, what I wrote was not very good. It came out easily, but it wasn’t much good. It was interlarded with what was pretentious, commonplace, and untrue.”