Nothing You Write, If You Hope To

If I Had To Give Young Writers Advice, I Would Say Don't Listen To Writers Talking About Writing Or Themselves.

Childhood Is Less Clear To Me Than To Many People: When It Ended I Turned My Face Away From It For No Reason That I Know About, Certainly Without The Usual Reason Of Unhappy Memories. For Many Years That Worried Me, But Then I Discovered That The Tales Of Former Children Are Seldom To Be Trusted. Some People Supply Too Many Past Victories Or Pleasures With Which To Comfort Themselves, And Other People Cling To Pains, Real And Imagined, To Excuse What They Have Become.

It's A Sad Day When You Find Out That It's Not Accident Or Time Or Fortune, But Just Yourself That Kept Things From You.

There Are People Who Eat The Earth And Eat All The People On It Like In The Bible With The Locusts. And Other People Who Stand Around And Watch Them Eat.

I Live In A Room And I Go To Work And I Play A Game Called Getting Through The Day While You Wait For The Night.