My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
It’s just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery – which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
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