Young or old, good or bad, I don’t think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
What is your advice to young writers? Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
What is your advice to older writers? If you’re still alive, you don’t need any advice.
There was nothing glorious about the life of a writer or the life of a drinker.
The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.
Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.
Great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. Good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. If you read this after I am long dead it means I made it.
But most men, fortunately, aren’t writers, or even cab drivers, and some men – many men – unfortunately aren’t anything.