Music has no limits of a life-span.
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.