I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those you're being deprived of something.
And I'm a slow writer: five six hundred words is a good day. That's the...
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be...
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion but a blight bred in the cloudy damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
