“Writing is hard, but I don’t want to kill myself trying to write. Not unless I’m writing a suicide note.”
“David Goodis didn’t write novels, he wrote suicide notes.”
“Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note.'Sorry,' said the note.'Just not big enough.”
“How do you write about something, even something real and painful-like suicide-when all of the writing that's been done on that subject has robbed you of any originality of expression?”
“I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry, and write a lot of notes and emails and stuff. I mean, I feel like I am always writing. I do it so much, I never even thought about it as a talent. It's just something I do all the time, like breathing.”