Culture Clash Is Terrific Drama.

Most Of My Stories Have Some Basis In Fact.

For Success, The Author Must Make The Reader Care About The Destiny Of The Principals, And Sustain This Anxiety, Or Suspense, For About 100,000 Words.

There Was A Very Serious Communist Strain Among American Intellectuals Before The War. America Was A More Tolerant Place In Those Days, And Communists Were Not Treated As Pariahs. That Ended With The Mccarthy Era.

To Someone Standing In The Nave, Looking Down The Length Of The Church Toward The East, The Round Window Would Seem Like A Huge Sun Exploding Into Innumerable Shards Of Gorgeous Color.

I Don't Think There's Any Great Mystery To Writing Female Characters, So Long As You Talk To Them. If You Lived In A Monastery And Never Met Any Women, Maybe It Would Be Difficult.