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Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

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I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about ...more

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I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992...more

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Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. ...more

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You are either born a writer or you are not.

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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

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I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

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Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. ...more