Good Writing Is Supposed To Evoke Sensation

It May Be That The Most Avid Readers Of New Fiction In America Today Are Film Producers, An Indication Of The Trouble Were In.

An Animated Cartoon Theology: 1. People Are Animals. 2. The Body Is Mortal And Subject To Incredible Pain. 3. Life Is Antagonistic To The Living. 4. The Flesh Can Be Sawed, Crushed, Frozen, Stretched, Burned, Bombed, And Plucked For Music. 5. The Dumb Are Abused By The Smart And The Smart Destroyed By Their Own Cunning. 6. The Small Are Tortured By The Large And The Large Destroyed By Their Own Momentum. 7. We Are Able To Walk On Air, But Only As Long As Our Illusion Supports Us.

Movies Are Too Literal.

A New Reader Shouldn't Be Able To Find You In Your Work, Though Someone Who's Read More May Begin To.

The Writer Isn't Made In A Vacuum. Writers Are Witnesses. The Reason We Need Writers Is Because We Need Witnesses To This Terrifying Century.