What about writing?
You can write literature about almost anything, for literature is not in the subject but in the treatment
Writing should be overtly dramatic and dreamlike: the more dramatic, the more authentic; the more dreamlike, the more believable
Writing is but the child of tension and intensity
Writing is about conflict, inconsistency, contradiction; in other words, it is about all those things that we are so good at in real life
Writing can never disappoint you. If anything, you will disappoint your writing, for you are limited: you have so many words inside you but no more, you have so many experiences but no more – you are a simple enough human being
Writing is about a before and an after: before writing you were this person, and after writing you became that person, ideally for the better
The same applies to reading, as readers are also transformed when they read. And this is because readers are writers in themselves
Writing can be about you, but you must universalize your pain or your laughter
Writing can be about others, but you must make their pain or their laughter yours
Writing can be about what you know, but also about what you do not know anything about, and so in the process you will perhaps learn a few new things
Writing is the only country where abduction is legal, for you will abduct the reader momentarily before they return once more to their everyday life
Writing is about breaking the rules so that what surrounds you becomes a wholly different universe where objects speak, time stops, the speed of light is just the beginning, people never die, dreams come true
Writing is about suspending belief, never to recover it
Writing should be true to only one thing: the truth
Writing is always hard, painful, will make you crazy, will shake up your demons so that they afflict you even more, will drive away your angels
Writing is therefore not for the faint-hearted or for the seekers of anything other than the perfect sentence
There are no rules about writing, merely opinions
The only condition required to write is, of course, that you have to write at every waking hour
You must be your harshest critic, and so try and save only one poem out of every hundred, and only one page of prose out of every thousand
Good stories will always live on beyond their final words, unlike the rest of us