Status Updates From The Wheel of Fortune (2 Vol...

I was thinking how quiet it was now that all the worlds in my head had come to a stop. And how flat real life was, devoid of those extra dimensions of the imagination, how narrow (…). I felt stifled too by the straitjacket of a single personality. When one has been many people for a long time (…), the torture of re-inhabiting one’s own personality at a fixed point in time resembles being shut up in a small box.

“When you’re a writer at work, there is no time, only eternity, because writing’s for ever. Even if you tear up everything you ever do, every word you’ve ever written will still go towards making you a better writer and the better you become the more powerful the magic at your disposal, the magic which can triumph over time.”