Fiction Is Socially Meaningful.

Hemingway Said The Only Way To Write About A Place Is To Leave It.

There Are Things In This Universe That We Cannot Control, And Then There Are The Things We Can. . . . Let Fate, Coincidence, And Accident Conspire; Human Beings Must Act On Reason.

I Have Relaxed Into My Persona As An Author, Although I Used To Fight That.

I Have Traveled The Entire State And Spent A Lot Of Time Out Of Doors. So I Have Known The Landscape Of The Columbia Basin For Quite A While, And I Have Had This Strong Feeling About It For Many Years.

Cities Produce In Me Melancholy Or A Tension I Don't Need.