I kind of resent it when really talented writers quit writing

I kind of resent it when really talented writers quit writing. It's like, yeah, we get it--the writing life is hard. But you know what? You already won the writing lottery: you got the talent and the vision!

It's like if a whole bunch of us were climbing a glacier, and one guy had, like, icepicks instead of fingers and toes, and he was just clawing his w…