“The Gloom, Doom and Occasional Joy of the Writing Life” by Parul Sehgal in New York Times re John McPhee’s book on writing process of some writers.

“There are only two kinds of writers in the world, according to John McPhee: the overtly insecure and the covertly insecure,” begins Parul Sehgal’s review of Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, a new book by the eminent writer and teacher of creative nonfiction (1).

But, obviously, the two kinds of writers in the world are the writers of fiction and nonfiction, unless McPhee and Sehgal think that fiction and nonfiction writers have the same kind of writing process.

1. Parul Sehgal. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/books/review-draft-no-4-john-mcphee.html?mcubz=0