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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?
I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.
I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'
Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.
Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.
