charmander

"You don't write for prizes. You write because this is the way you are most alive, the way you feel you can be most effective in confronting life and society —and yourself even. The imagination sometimes takes off, takes off just like, say, a jazz musician who is on a flight of improvisation. So I let it go where it wants to go and then I pare it down. It's better to have it all down than to have missed an opportunity of writing yourself into something startling and interesting."

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”