A Writer Takes Earnest Measures To Secure

It Was Important For Him To Believe That He'd Spent His Life Among People Who Kept Missing The Point.

If You Reveal Everything, Bare Every Feeling, Ask For Understanding, You Lose Something Crucial To Your Sense Of Yourself. You Need To Know Things That Others Don't Know. It's What No One Knows About You That Allows You To Know Yourself.

World Is Supposed To Mean Something That's Self-contained. But Nothing Is Self-contained.

He Speaks In Your Voice, American, And There's A Shine In His Eye That's Halfway Hopeful.

In My Experience, Writing A Novel Tends To Create Its Own Structure, Its Own Demands, Its Own Language, Its Own Ending. So For Much Of The Period In Which I'm Writing, I'm Waiting To Understand What's Going To Happen Next, And How And Where It's Going To Happen. In Some Cases, Fairly Early In The Process, I Do Know How A Book Will End. But Most Of The Time, Not At All, And In This Particular Case, Many Questions Are Still Unanswered, Even Though I've Been Working For Months.