All My Books Take A Long Time

I Do Think That Part Of Literature's Job Is To Comment On And Participate In The Social Issues Of The Time.

With A Book Called 'keeping Score,' I Really Did Want To Write A Book About The Korean War, Because I Felt That It Is The Least Understood War In The American Cultural Imagination. So I Set Out With The Idea That Americans Didn't Know Much About The Korean War And That I Was Going To Try To Fix A Tiny Bit Of That.

I Want All My Books To Provoke Some Kind Of Response In The Reader, To Make Them Think Something Or Feel Something Or Both, And For That To Become A Part Of Them And Work Into Their Own Lives.

If A Man Is Keeping An Idea To Himself, And That Idea Is Taken By Stealth Or Trickery-i Say It Is Stealing. But Once A Man Has Revealed His Idea To Others, It Is No Longer His Alone. It Belongs To The World.

Why Was It That Pride And Foolishness Were So Often Close Companions?