“My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.”
“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.”
“Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.”
“People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.”
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
“Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on.It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.”