In Books, As In Life, There Are

Life Is That Which - Pressingly, Persistently, Unfailingly, Imperially - Interrupts.

If We Had To Say What Writing Is, We Would Have To Define It Essentially As An Act Of Courage.

I Can't Claim To Be Disenchanted "with The Current State Of Fiction" Because I Read So Little Of It. My Reading Is Mostly Drawn To History.

The Art Of Fiction Is Freedom Of Will For Your Characters.

A Writer Is Dreamed And Transfigured Into Being By Spells, Wishes, Goldfish, Silhouettes Of Trees, Boxes Of Fairy Tales Dropped In The Mud, Uncles' And Cousins' Books, Tablets And Capsules And Powders...and Then One Day You Find Yourself Leaning Here, Writing On That Round Glass Table Salvaged From The Park View Pharmacy--writing This, An Impossibility, A Summary Of Who You Came To Be Where You Are Now, And Where, God Knows, Is That?