A Novelist Is On The Cusp Between

There Are Five Things That Societies Do: They Reproduce; They Produce Food; They Organize Themselves In Terms Of Law; They Organize Themselves In Terms Of Belief; And They Make Art. Four Of Them Are About Conformity, And In These, Everything Would Go More Smoothly If People Just Would Shut Up And Do What They're Told. But In Art It Doesn't Work That Way.

I Loved The House The Way You Would Any New House, Because It Is Populated By Your Future, The Family Of Children Who Will Fill It With Noise Or Chaos And Satisfying Busy Pleasures.

Oh, That Sound? I'm In The Hot Tub, Reading A Novel.

The Fact Is That The Same Sequence Of Days Can Arrange Themselves Into A Number Of Different Stories.

In My Experience, There Is Only One Motivation, And That Is Desire. No Reasons Or Principle Contain It Or Stand Against It.