I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.