Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.
That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.
I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it.
Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.
