The Rich Are Always Enamored Of The

I Think Of Myself As A Very Lazy Writer, Though Other People See It Differently.

Fiction -- At Least For Me -- Requires Long, Relatively Uninterrupted Time Stretches In Which To Bring It To Fruition. I've Never Been A Two-hour-in-the-morning Writer, Who Could Put In Another Six Hours On Sunday Afternoon. For Me, A Novel Requires Weeks Of Living In A Largely Mental And Wholly Internal Landscape. Everything Else Has To Be Relegated To The Odd Hour Here, The Bit Of Time There. Sadly, However, Uninterrupted Time Blocks Are Not What Life Doles Out Today To Any Of Us With Regularity.

I Want To Read About A Character Doing Something Fairly Quiet Where I Can Picture Who The Character Is, And What Their Attitude Towards The World Is - Which I'm A Lot More Interested In Than What They Do Under The Pressure Of A Gunfight.

As A Prose Writer, I Work With Language; And Those Who Work With Language Turn To Poetry For Renewal.

The Only Important Elements In Any Society Are The Artistic And The Criminal, Because They Alone, By Questioning The Society’s Values, Can Force It To Change.