ar told NPR…hat they leave out is the six years he spent editing and refining it until it was finally ready. As one Kerouac scholar told NPR on the book’s fiftieth anniversary:Here (with 2 Years of Exhausting Photographic Detail) Is How To Write A Book2.9K46Ryan HolidayStephen BlackFollowJul 30, 2017 · 1 min readYou probably know the Capote quote: “That’s not writing. That’s typing.”