A Well-off Plastic Surgeon Can Suffer Just

God Creates Us Free, Free To Be Selfish, But He Adds A Mechanism That Will Penetrate Our Selfishness And Wake Us Up To The Presence Of Others In This World, And That Mechanism Is Called Suffering.

Madly, Futilely, I Wrote Novel After Novel, Eight In All, That Failed To Find A Publisher. I Persisted Because For Me The Novel Was The Supreme Literary Form: Not Just One Among Many, Not A Relic Of The Past, But The Way We Communicate To One Another The Subtlest Truths About This Business Of Living.

If You Die, I'll Die.' 'but Is You Live, I'll Live.' - Bowman And Kestrel, Firesong

When I Began To Write Seriously, 40 Years Ago Now, My Chosen Form Was The Novel.

There Are Dozens Of Great American Writers Who Write About The Family.