Nonfiction Is Easy And Fiction Is Hard.

If What We Want To Do Is Promote Reading And Writing And Publishing And Making Sure This Is A Business That Keeps Going - Because It Is A Business! It's Not Just An Art - Then We Have To Take Responsibility. I Get Sort Of Crazy And Frothy When I Think About This. It Really Matters.

I Can Write For Any Magazine Now, In Any Voice. I Can Do It In Two Hours, I Could Do It In My Sleep, It's Like Writing A Grocery List.

The Hardest Piece Of Nonfiction I Ever Wrote Isn't Anywhere Close To The Easiest Piece Of Fiction I Never Wrote.

In This Life We Love Who We Love. There Were Some Stories In Which Facts Were Very Nearly Irrelevant.

You Throw A Person In The River And Then Make A Spectacle Of Jumping In To Save Them.