Only when the clock stops does time come to life
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
You can't. You just have to.
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.