If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.