
“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”
Source: Dark Places
“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”
“After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.”
Source: Dreamland (2000)
“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”
Source: Oryx and Crake
Ellen on Oprah show, 9th of November 2009
On loss and failure, from [September 7, 1959, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 64, On Broadway, Dorothy, Kilgallen]
“Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker, and so you can stand less and less.”
Pt. 2, Ch. 3 - p.97
Giovanni's Room (1956)