If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get t…

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at nig…

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.