“All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.”
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If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.
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I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.
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I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
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