If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

Nothing ever happened except God.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.