For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
“That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.”
“So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.”