Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
More will mean worse.
Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.
Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.
My theory is - we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the jaws of the cave, and strike a match, and ask quickly if anybody’s there.