All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

I essentially write for myself.

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.