When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.
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.

