“If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.”

“If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.”

“If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.”

“It's like somebody stuffed him in a barrel full of moonshine-proof cluelessness and then left him there to get pickled in it while it fermented into malice.”