The Pessimism Of The Creative Person Is

We Are All God's Creatures-that We Pray To God For Mercy And Justice While We Continue To Eat The Flesh Of Animals That Are Slaughtered On Our Account Is Not Consistent.

I Know As A Writer How Valuable A Tool Is The Wastebasket. Perhaps God Throws Away Many Experiments Before He Finds The Right Expression. Perhaps We Are The Discards - Or We Could Be The Part He Keeps. This Mystery Is What Keeps Us All Going, To See What Happens In The Next Chapter.

Two Important Things Are To Have A Genuine Interest In People And To Be Kind To Them. Kindness, I've Discovered, Is Everything.

Actually, The True Story Of A Person's Life Can Never Be Written. It Is Beyond The Power Of Literature. The Full Tale Of Any Life Would Be Both Utterly Boring And Utterly Unbelievable.

The Very Essence Of Literature Is The War Between Emotion And Intellect, Between Life And Death. When Literature Becomes Too Intellectual - When It Begins To Ignore The Passions, The Emotions - It Becomes Sterile, Silly, And Actually Without Substance.