Because Most Writers Have Totally Unrealistic Concepts

I Asked A French Critic A Couple Of Years Ago Why My Books Did So Well In France. He Said It Was Because In My Novels People Both Act And Think. I Got A Kick Out Of That.

We Americans Are Trained To Think Big, Talk Big, Act Big, Love Big, Admire Bigness But Then The Essential Mystery Is In The Small.

Writers Can Write Outside Their Ethnicity Or Sex Depending How Open And Vulnerable They Wish To Be.

I Had Let My Digust With Teaching Ruin My Love Of Literature.

A Poet Must Discover That It’s His Own Story That Is True, Even If The Truth Is Small Indeed.