I was relying on a kind of natural transition - the transitions made by someone who is slightly deranged.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid to start again. So I do something every day.

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be

You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

I have not been the witness I wanted to be.