We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.

I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.

Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.