Any Life Will Seem Dramatic If You

I Must Say Also That It's Never Worked To My Disadvantage That I Have Long, Blond Hair.

It's Not About Having Things Figured Out, Or About Communicating With Other People, Trying To Make Them Understand What You Understand. It's About A Chicken Dinner At A Drive-in. A Soft Pillow. Things That Don't Need Explaining.

I Like A Lot Of Margaret Atwood, I Like Much Of Alice Munro. Again, If You Were To Ask Me About Male Writers, There's Often A Novel I Admire, But Not All Of Their Works.

Italics Provide A Wonderful Advantage: You See, Right Away, That The Words Are In A Rush. When Something Exists At A Slant, You Can't Help But Consider Irony.

Nobody Can Assume That, To A Writer, Everything Is Off-limits.