I Am Influenced By Words And The

I Think It's Important To Leave Spaces In A Story For Readers To Fill In From Their Own Experience.

You Know, One Of The Tragedies Of Real Life Is That There Is No Background Music.

Wonderful ... I Was Up All Night Reading It, Laughing And Crying Out In Horror.

We Face Up To Awful Things Because We Can't Go Around Them, Or Forget Them. The Sooner You Get It Over With, The Sooner You Say 'yes, It Happened, And There's Nothing I Can Do About It,' The Sooner You Can Get On With Your Own Life. You've Got Children To Bring Up. So You've Got To Get Over It. What We Have To Get Over, Somehow We Do. Even The Worst Things.

I Find It Satisfying And Intellectually Stimulating To Work With The Intensity, Brevity, Balance And Word Play Of The Short Story.