I'm A Natural Novelist. I'm Interested In

A Novelist Has Two Lives-- A Reading And Writing Life, And A Lived Life. He Or She Cannot Be Understood At All Apart From This.

There Is A Sociology Of Horses, As Well As A Psychology. It Is Most Evident In The World Of Horse Racing, Where Many Horses Are Gathered Together, Where Year After Year, Decade After Decade, They Do The Same, Rather Simple Thing - Run In Races And Try To Win.

Before I Write A Novel, Images Float Around In My Head That Work Like Icons - They Are Meaningless In Themselves, But Serve As Reminders.

I Don't Know - Is Everything The U.s. Does A Shocking Embarrassment?

I Was Depressed, But That Was A Side Issue. This Was More Like Closing Up Shop, Or, Say, Having A Big Garage Sale, Where You Look At Everything You've Bought In Your Life, And You Remember How Much It Meant To You, And Now You Just Tag It For A Quarter And Watch 'em Carry It Off, And You Don't Care. That's More Like How It Was.