There Are Moments In Life When It

A Particular Piece Of Music Attaches Itself To The Piece I'm Writing, And There Is Nothing Else I Can Listen To. Every Day I Return To The Same Space To Write, The Music Providing Both The Walls And The Pictures On The Walls.

When I Was Young, I Was All About Personal Sovereignty And That Junk, Because There Was No Privacy And The Available Ideologies Were Collective, Both Socialism/communism And Nationalism.

Your Memories Become Fantasies If They Are Not Shared, And Your Life In All Its Triviality Becomes A Legend.

Every Artist, Writers Included, Have An Ethics And An Aesthetics, Whether They Can Formulate Them Or Not. I Happen To Think That It Is Good To Be Able To Formulate - It Is Good To Know What You Are Doing And To Be Able To Talk About It.

It Is My Belief That We As Human Beings Have A Need To Tell Stories - I Think It's Evolutionary. So You Can Think Of The Short Story As A Literary Form, Or You Can Instead Think Of Stories.