Sartre said, "Hell is other people." He was my first crush.
— Well, it didn't bring anyone else much solace. I wasn't any good.
— No one need ever read it. You could always burn it.
Definition of a classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
All authors are inspired by something someone wrote before them. The first rule for a great novelist is to copy.
— What I'm trying to say is... it's almost like I'm writing to spend time with her.
— Who?
— The girl. The one I'm writing. It's I go to sleep at night... just waiting to get to my typewriter so I can be with her. It's like... It's like I'm falling in love with her.
— That's wonderful.
— I can't fall in love with a girl I write.
— Why not?
— Because she's not real.
— Isn't she? Are you sure?
— No. Yes. She's some motherfucking product of my imagination!
— It's brilliant, no?
— It's missing some periods and commas.
— It's better than anything you've ever written.
— I use periods and commas.
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