Are There Books About Us Or Something?”

Writing Is My Obsession, My Passion. My Relationship With It Is One Of The Most Complex And Agonizing And Richly Vexing That I Have In My Life.

First, You Hand Over Some Basics-overwhelming Joy, Existential Angst, A Giving-in To Desire, Etc. And Then You Promise To Withstand Talking Idly About The Weather, To Encourage Cliché, To Uphold The Virtues Of Average. You Hand Over The Need To Be Understood And, In Return, You Get A Bar Of Normal Soap. And You Can Wash In It And Be Daily Reborn To A Safe World Of Modest, Enduring Love Or, At Least, Mild, Well-mannered Bonding.

You Learn To Exploit Genre For The More Important Things - To My Mind - Like Story, Character, Image, Language.

Try To Think Of Writing As A Gift - More Complexly Put: It Is The Curse And The Cure.

Writing Stories Is The Habit Of Lying Put To Good Use.