You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.