For A Writer, Obsession Is A Good

In Life's Brief Game To Be A Winner A Man Must Have...oh Yes, Above All Else, Of Course, Someone To Love.

Behind Every Door On Every Ordinary Street, In Every Hut In Every Ordinary Village In This Middling Planet Of A Trivial Star, Such Riches Are To Be Found. The Strange Journeys We Undertake On Our Earthly Pilgrimage, The Joy And Suffering We Taste Or Confer, The Chance Events That Leave Us Together Or Apart, What A Complex Trace They Leave: So Personal As To Be Almost Incommunicable, So Fugitive As To Be Almost Irrecoverable.

Boredom Provides A Stronger Inclination To Write Than Anything.

But I Too Hate Long Books: The Better, The Worse. If They're Bad They Merely Make Me Pant With The Effort Of Holding Them Up For A Few Minutes. But If They're Good, I Turn Into A Social Moron For Days, Refusing To Go Out Of My Room, Scowling And Growling At Interruptions, Ignoring Weddings And Funerals, And Making Enemies Out Of Friends. I Still Bear The Scars Of Middlemarch.

I Certainly Think Its Very Important That Writers As Citizens - Not Necessarily As Writers, But Just As Ordinary Citizens - Should Talk About Things That Matter To Them.