A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others
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