They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be.

Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it's a sort of compensation for having been born. 'There are no strings on me!' They sang; but I, pinnoccio, saw the strings. Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.

Y escribir cada día,
ganar la lotería
de al menos una frase
que nadie ha dicho nunca,
tener un pensamiento
que todos han tenido,
pero decirlo bien
con todas las vocales,
con todos los sonidos,
con todos los sentidos.
Lograr que la aventura de tu vida
esté en las páginas que escribes,
en los ojos que ahora
pulen un heptasílabo,
quitan o ponen una coma, una tilde, un acento,
en los ojos que ahora se detienen
complacidos tal vez
o entretenidos
en un punto, este punto: .

It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it's time to be living. I don't want to frighten you, but I would like to make you understand the import of what you think of attempting. You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.