Am Leben / Alive Bär / Bear Habe / Got Irgendein / Any Leser / Reader Mich selber / Myself Oben / Up Schreiben / Writing Sehen / See Sollte / Should Sprache / Language Stellen / Put Stumpf / Dull Völlig / Fully Warum / Why
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
I really feel I have found myself as a chef. It's very clear to me what I want to do - and how it should taste.
I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
I always feel that I am writing for somebody who is bright but impatient. Someone who doesn't have unlimited time. That is my sense of the reader. So I have got to get to the point.
I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.
It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
