As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
Follow your heart, and you perish.
What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.
When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around and wait until inspiration strikes, but neither can you force into being something that isn't there.