In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
Excellence costs a great deal.
Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.