A Writer Has To Be Driven Crazy

The Ordeal Is Part Of The Commitment" Esquire Interview 10/10

I Haven't Written A Word Of Fiction Since 2009. I Have No Desire To Write Fiction. I Did What I Did And It's Done. There's More To Life Than Writing And Publishing Fiction. There Is Another Way Entirely, Amazed As I Am To Discover It At This Late Date.

I Often Have To Write A Hundred Pages Or More Before There's A Paragraph That's Alive.

The Fact Remains That Getting People Right Is Not What Living Is All About Anyway. It's Getting Them Wrong That Is Living, Getting Them Wrong And Wrong And Wrong And Then, On Careful Reconsideration, Getting Them Wrong Again. That's How We Know We're Alive: We're Wrong.

You Put Too Much Stock In Human Intelligence, It Doesn't Annihilate Human Nature.