Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.
I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.