But On The Other Hand, I Don't

Although I Still Occasionally Paint And Draw, My Life Has Now Been Shaped By My Writing.

The Way I Feel About Every Book Is This: You Don't Finish It, You Abandon It. All Of My Books Have In Some Sense Failed, Otherwise I Wouldn't Write Another One. If I Wrote The Perfect Book, I Wouldn't Have To Write Again, And I Wouldn't Want To. That's Not True For Everyone, But It's True For Me. I Could Walk Away Then. But So Far I Haven't Managed To Do It.

It's Hard To Spend Years At A Time Working In Total Solitude With No Reality-check.

Our Sins Describe Us, And Our Prohibitions Describe Our Sins.

I Much Prefer Working With Kids Whose Life Could Be Completely Upended By A Reading Of A Book Over A Weekend. You Give Them A Book To Read - They Go Home And Come Back A Changed Person. And That Is So Much More Interesting And Exciting.