To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.