“Writing to me is like being addicted to heroin… it’s hard and its mean, but you just can’t stop.”
“Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.”
“Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.”
“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
“She was addicted to literature like some people were addicted to heroin.”
“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”