“The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.”
“Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit.”
“Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.”
“I've just got to keep going and hope that one day, it starts to feel not quite as bad as it does now.”
“There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.”
“Quite a lot is a large amount but quite a few is also a large amount.”