Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.