Literature Is Always Something - It Is

I Want To Change Something. I Want To Stop The Germs From Attacking My Daughters.

There's A Social And Human Necessity For Some Kind Of Continuity, But It's Not Axiomatic And Not Something You're Born Into; It's Something You Have To Work At. And One Of The Ways To Work At It - Perhaps The Best - Is Storytelling: Telling Stories About Yourself To Others, Telling Stories About Yourself To Yourself, Telling Stories About Others To Others.

It Is So Much Easier To Deal With The Dead Than With The Living. The Dead Are Out Of The Way, Merely Characters From Stories About The Past, Never Again Unreadable, No Misunderstandings Possible, The Pain Coming From Them Stable And Manageable. Nor Do You Have To Explain Yourself To Them, To Justify The Fact Of Your Life.

I Cannot Live Or Write Without Music. It Stimulates The Normally Dormant Parts Of My Brain That Come In Handy When Constructing Fiction.

Where Can You Go From Nowhere, Except Deeper Into Nowhere?