I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
God save us from people who mean well.
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.