"Ambition for artists is like life on this earth: it's self-replicating, and there's no end to it. All of us, especially novelists, are damaged, psychologically damaged. We have big problems, and we're not good people. We're drug addicts, we're drunks. So we want to even the score-- we want adulation. If you are single-mined, as many writers are, as I am, the work is all you are. There is nothing else. And so if the work goes away, then it's the gun."
-T.C. Boyle
WSJ Magazine, March 2015, p. 62.
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