It is easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing, that’s the Lord’s test.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
I’d asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, ‘Well, what do you love most?’ That’s how I started painting money.
Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.