But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
For my own family I would always choose the makeshift surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.