Nothing Is So Awesomely Unfamiliar As The

One Reason Writers Write Is Out Of Revenge. Life Hurts; Certain Ideas And Experiences Hurt; One Wants To Clarify, To Set Out Illuminations, To Replay The Old Bad Scenes And Get The Treppenworte Said -- The Words One Didn't Have The Strength Or Ripeness To Say When Those Words Were Necessary For One's Dignity Or Survival.

History ... Isn't Simply What Has Happened. It's A Judgment On What Has Happened.

The Power Of Language, It Seems To Me, Is The Only Kind Of Power A Writer Is Entitled To.

If Ideas Are What Feed Serious Literature And Arresting Language, Who Today Is Writing A Novel Of Ideas (which Can Often Mean Comedy)? I Think Of Joshua Cohen. Who Else?

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