I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.
I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
Death is very often referred to as a good career move.