Kevin Rabelais uncovers an inter­esting feature of nov­elist Don DeLillo’s writing process in a recent interview for The Australian. A decade into his career, DeLillo began the practice, when he came to write a new para­graph, of loading a fresh page into his typewriter.

“It helped me see more clearly what was on the page … Instead of being con­fronted with a page of 350 words, it might have 50 words, or 100, and I could focus more clearly on words and sentences.”

Apparently DeLillo con­tinues to use the tech­nique. Entire forests tremble with fear every time he begins a new book. (Luckily the new one is a novella.)