The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.