If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.
One is but a shade of the other.
When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.
Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.
Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.
Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.