Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
When writing, I model all the heroes after myself. Of course, it's hard to make them quite as wonderful as I am, but I come as close as I can.
That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.
Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.
I'm a show-off basically... always have been.
