Nobody Does Anything For One Reason.

One Hates A Person For The Same Reason One Loves Him

I Began As A Boy With Artistic Talent... As A Visual Artist... I Thought That Was What I'd Become And In My Late Teens Drifted Into Reading Serious Literature.

Let The Truth Take Care Of Itself, I Decided. It's Done All Right On Its Own So Far.

Choose Your Agent As Carefully As You Would Choose Your Accountant Or Lawyer. Or Dentist.

And Out Of A Desire Essentially To Imitate What I Was Reading, I Began To Write, Like A Clever Monkey.