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“To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.”

“When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.’”

He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

“I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.”

“I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn’t fulfill something in me, if I don’t honestly feel it’s the best I can do, then I’m miserable.”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”