For An Author Nothing Is As Dead

To Wake For The First Time In A New Place Can Be Like Another Birth.

To Me And My Kind Life Itself Is A Story And We Have To Tell It In Stories - That Is The Way It Falls.

With Everything That Happens To You, With Everyone You Meet Who Is Important To You, You Either Die A Little Or Are Born.

Every Piece Of Writing Starts From What I Call A Grit A Sight Or Sound, A Sentence Or Happening That Does Not Pass Away But Quite Inexplicably Lodges In The Mind.

In California I Began To Think That, Except On The Beaches, No-one Had The Use Of Their Legs.