I want to push myself to my limits, and if things don’t work out, then I can give up. But I will do everything I can until the bitter end. That is how I live. - Haruki Murakami

I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist;  being an editor or a critic was out too, since my tastes run to extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study.