Try Not To Become Disappointed If Someone

Try Not To Become Disappointed If Someone Doesn't Like A Story You've Written. Stick Up For Your Ideas, But Listen To What Other People Say, Too. They Might Have Good Advice.

You Can't Say You Want Things To Be Simple And Then In The Next Breath Ask Me To Be Honest.

By The Time Ordinary Life Asserted Itself Once More, I Would Feel I Had Already Lived For A While In Some Other Lifetime, That I Had Even Taken Over Someone Else's Life.

My Theory Is That I Decided To Be A Writer When I Was About Seven, But Of Course It Is Not As Simple As That. Like Most Writers, I Had To Work At Other Things To Earn A Living And Wrote Mainly In The Evenings, Often Very Late At Night, For Many Years.

I Think I Am Too Interested In My Own Ideas To Copy Anyone Else's, But I Find That Other People's Imagery, The Flow Of Language In The Outside World, Games With Words, And Ideas About Relationships Are All Most Important To Me.