If You Lose All Hope, You Can

I'm Trying To Cause People To Be Interested In The Particulars Of Their Lives Because I Think That's One Thing Literature Can Do For Us. It Can Say To Us: Pay Attention. Pay Closer Attention. Pay Stricter Attention To What You Say To Your Son.

Reading Is Probably What Leads Most Writers To Writing.

Marrying The Right Girl Is Even More Imperative Today Than It Was When I Was 23 Years Old Because It's So Much Harder To Get On As An Imaginative Writer Like Me Now. You Need To Have Somebody Who Believes In What You're Doing And Who Never Is Skeptical About What You're Doing. My Wife Thought It Was A Great Thing For Me To Be A Writer Because In Practical Terms It Freed Her To Do What She Wanted To Do, Which Was Work.

It Is Right That You Have To Have A Tolerance For Solitude. But When That Solitude Bears Fruit, You Can Abandon It. You Can Be In The Company Of Others.

Life's Passed Along To Us Empty. We Have To Make Up The Happiness Part.