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Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.