Keep reading outside of your comfort zone. If you’re a fiction junkie, read biography. All writers should read poetry.
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up.
What if the worst thing that happened to you turns out to be the best thing that has ever happened to you?
Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted.
The question the colonized must ask themselves is, in reality, the following: 'In reality, who am I?'
Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer.