It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down

I never cease to be amazed why some of my friends became famous and others, just as talented, didn't. I've come to suspect it's a matter of wanting fame or not, and those who don't want it, don't get it.