To write, live.
“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you cant, youre dead”
“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebooka fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”
“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. Its the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”