I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.
You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
Literature is the history of the soul.