Philip Guston Archive “If I Can Bear the Nights, the Days Are a Pleasure”: On Not Writing Author: Bruna Dantas Lobato | Jul192016 Categories: Critical Essays, Writing Advice No comments I’m a slow writer and I accepted that a long time ago. But earlier this year, I noticed I was becoming slower and slower, writing a sentence a day, even a sentence a week at times. I was experiencing a period of drought.