I Didn't Read A Serious Book Until

At Heart, Of Course, A Story Itself Is Consolation's Instrument.

Writing Is The Only Thing I've Ever Done With Persistence, Except For Being Married.

The Ways In Which Things Are Superficially Similar But Also Distinct Is Interesting To Me.

It Is Right That You Have To Have A Tolerance For Solitude. But When That Solitude Bears Fruit, You Can Abandon It. You Can Be In The Company Of Others.

Some People Think That Writers Are Innately Solitary And That There's A Kind Of Romance To That Solitariness. I Tend To Think That What Writers Really Want To Do Is Get Accepted Into Things. They Want To Get Accepted Into Society, Into Culture, Into Intelligentsia, Into The Fun. Writing Is Their Mechanism, Their Instrument, For Doing That.