“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”
Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist
“I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.”
— Gillian Flynn, book Dark Places
Source: Dark Places
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