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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.
I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.
