“Writing is hard, but I don’t want to kill myself trying to write. Not unless I’m writing a suicide note.”
“Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ”
“David Goodis didn’t write novels, he wrote suicide notes.”
“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself”
“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
“Writer’s want to write something that’ll live forever. I don’t. What do I care if my writing lives forever if I won’t? I just want to be recognized while I’m still alive. ”