I Could Stop Writing - It Relieved My Suffering

"It was a bit like Zen was my wife and writing was the affair," he says. "I just had to kind of let go of all of that ambition and that dark, powerful, insecure, creative, writerly stuff" After six months as a monk, I didn't write anything for first time in 15 or 16 years. It's hard when you're in Hollywood not to define yourself by how successful you are, especially young kid in your 20s who have no social life.

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