“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.”
“Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.”
“The cure for unhappiness is happiness,I don't care what anyone says.”
“All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and when it comes to the Holiday Season, happy families can abruptly become unhappy and unhappy families can, to their great alarm, be happy”
“I don't think unhappiness is fated.”
“If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.”