“You sound so miserable.”“All novelists are.”
“Just resign yourself to the fact that you're going to be miserable so you can finally be happy. (It's a sound theory if you think about it hard enough.)”
“He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?”
“What's this "rough life of a novelist" bullshit? You sound like an idiot.You're a writer. At least give yourself better lines.”
“None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.”
“Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.”