False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.
For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.
I never change, I simply become more myself.
Novels usually evolve out of 'character. ' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
Poets are Damned. . . but See with the Eyes of Angels.
I'm an introvert at heart. . . And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.
Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.
If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.