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

For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.

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.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

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

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.