I Thought I Would Lose, So I

A Novel Is A Printed Circuit Through Which Flows The Force Of A Reader's Own Life.

What We Call Fiction Is The Ancient Way Of Knowing, The Total Discourse That Antedates All The Special Vocabularies....fiction Is Democratic, It Reasserts The Authority Of The Single Mind To Make And Remake The World.

Writing Is A Socially Acceptable Form Of Schizophrenia.

The Voice Of The Constitution Is The Inescapably Solemn Self-consciousness Of The People Giving The Law Unto Themselves.

A Writer Of Books Has To Admit That Film Is The Enemy, And That In My Case I Have Been Sleeping With The Enemy.