At One Level You're Condemned To The

When I Went To College I Took A Creative Writing Class And Decided In A Week To Be A Writer.

What Some People Interpret As Brooding Melancholy Is Serenity. I Don't Feel Required To Grasp All The Time.

I'm Not An Urban Person.

I Was Born In Washington State And Have Lived Here For 42 Plus Years.

Writers Shouldn’t Underestimate The Difficulty Of What They’re Doing, And They Should Treat It With Great Seriousness. You’re Doing Something That Really Matters, You’re Telling Stories That Have An Impact On Other People And On The Culture. You Should Tell The Best Stories You Can Possibly Tell And Put Everything You’ve Got Into It.