In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.
Writers will be judged by what they write.
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.
I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.
I am a cigarette with a body attached to it
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.