Writing Novels Is An Essentially Amateur Activity.

Men Are Competent In Groups That Mimic The Playground, Incompetent In Groups That Mimic The Family

In His 30 Years Of Broadcasting And Publishing Fiction, Garrison Keillor Has Set The Laugh Bar Pretty High.

Respect And Fear Are Two Different Things.

Gossip. The More You Talk About Why People Do Things, The More Ideas You Have About How The World Works.

I'm A Natural Novelist. I'm Interested In The Person And The Group, And How They Mesh. And One Of The Ways I Don't Want Them To Mesh Is For The Person To Be Subsumed Into The Group.