The First Thing You Have To Know

... We Must Remember That There's More Than One Story And Plot In Every Novel. There Are At Least As Many Stories As There Are Main Characters, And Each Of These Stories Has To Have Multiple Plots To Keep It Going - Blood And Bone, Nerve And Tissue, Forgotten Longing And Unknown Events.

The Police And I Have A Deal. I Don't Talk To Them And They Don't Listen To Me.

Hbo And I Have A Deal To At Least Try To Make A Television Series From The Leonid Mcgill Stories. We're Going To Start With The First Novel, 'the Long Fall'.

A Lot Of People... Kind Of Make Heroes That Are Separate From Us, People Who Are, You Know, Like... John Wayne And Errol Flynn And, You Know, Denzel Washington... People Who Are Different, Who Are Larger Than Life.

The Process Of Writing A Novel Is Like Taking A Journey By Boat. You Have To Continually Set Yourself On Course. If You Get Distracted Or Allow Yourself To Drift, You Will Never Make It To The Destination. It's Not Like Highly Defined Train Tracks Or A Highway; This Is A Path That You Are Creating Discovering. The Journey Is Your Narrative. Keep To It And There Will Be A Tale Told.