From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Books dont need batteries