“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.”
“Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.”
“I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having to admit it's the truth.”
“Work is always a spiritual necessity even if, for some, work is not an economic necessity.”
“I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an outsider in childhood, to have been given the "gift" of not belonging. ”
“Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.”