Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
You can't have justice unless you have truth.
As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.