Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.
Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.