Without Craft, Art Remains Private. Without Art,

The Greatest Works Of Literature Seem To Embody Both "art" And "morality".

Novels Usually Evolve Out Of 'character.' Characters Generate Stories, And The Shape Of A Novel Is Entirely Imagined But Should Have An Aesthetic Coherence.

The Folly Of War Is That It Can Have No Natural End Except In The Extinction An Entire People.

I Am More Or Less Reading All The Time.

I Tend To Think In Dramatic Terms. In Life, There May Be An Actual Drama, But It Would Be The Fictionalized, Imagined Drama That Engaged Me.