The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my life is the way I want it to be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.
I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.
Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.
You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?
One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.
I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.