“The death of every author is to try to win a popularity contest.  To try and write a best seller.  At that point the writing dies.  It has no life.  Write because you have to…that you will die for your blood on the paper.  You are naked.  It costs your defenses and you are 1000 per cent vulnerable.  You do not give a fuck if you go to jail for what you write.  It is then alive and worth reading.  It has integrity.  People will read it and buy it then and feel your soul.  You build a relationship with your audience and have a following, a readership you have earned the honor of writing for.”