"Writing means you and the computer or you and the typewriter, and sometimes there’s an enormous..."

“"Writing means you and the computer or you and the typewriter, and sometimes there’s an enormous weight of emotion which you have nowhere to take. I think it’s a reason writers drink; you can get so incredibly wound up you’re weeping and laughing. Writing is how I justify my existence. This is a basic hunger for most people; they want their suffering to mean something. You go through all these things and the idea it’s utterly of no consequence is very difficult to work with."”

- Robert Stone...