“Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.”
“STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE”
“You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.”
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
“I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.”
“If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.”