“When you get… to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.”
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“If everything you do is in order to do something else, when do you ever get to the end of it all?”
Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), Firesong (Book 3), p. 170
“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.”
As quoted in Eyewitness to Power (2001) by David Gergen.
“Well, here you get to be a writer when there's absolutely nothing else you can do.”
"The Art of Fiction No. 11" (1955)
Context: I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that geographically he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer. The thing is that here you get to be a writer differently. I mean, a writer like Sartre decides, like any professional man, when he's fifteen, sixteen years old, that instead of being a doctor he's going to be a writer. And he absorbs the French tradition and proceeds from there. Well, here you get to be a writer when there's absolutely nothing else you can do. I mean, I don't know of any writers here who just started out to be writers, and then became writers. They just happen to fall into it.