All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.
When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.
He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.
I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.
You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.
America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.