Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.
It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.