There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

The name of a person you love is more than language.

People go to the movies instead of moving.

Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.