 I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. |
| The writer's duty is to keep on writing. |
| A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. |
| Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. |
| I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. |
| Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. |
| And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars. |
| Let's face it, writing is hell. |
| Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people. |
| Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. |
| The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. |
| If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. |
