# Novelist Mark Haddon Quit Twitter. Not Because It’s Terrible, But Because It Prevents Him From Being Great - Study Hacks - Cal Newport

<http://www.calnewport.com/blog/2019/05/17/novelist-mark-haddon-quit-twitter-not-because-its-terrible-but-because-it-prevents-him-from-being-great/>

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## What Jamie wrote

This is spot on. I’m guessing it’s bad form to quote another articles quote, but… 

> “I am taking a long break because every tweet had begun to feel like a peep of steam through my whistle — Listen to me! Listen to me! — which reduced the boiler pressure I needed to write another novel.”

Blurting out little bits of stuff has exactly this effect for me of letting out the steam. I debate often removing those outlets to force the urge to author to build up to something more substantial.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT107: Weekly Thing #107 / May 25, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/107/), Notable Links 📌

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