“If you’re a person of feeling, if you feel things keenly and deeply – and I don’t think you can be a writer unless you feel things not just for the moment but they live in you – that costs you. I don’t think you can be a writer of consequence and merit unless you have grave doubts about yourself, about what you’ve done and who you are and whom you’ve hurt. And that costs you. And so, it all costs you. What is left is what all of us are going to get, a chance to know what it’s like to die.”
