Grief, When It Comes, Is Nothing Like

Nothing I Read About Grief Seemed To Exactly Express The Craziness Of It; Which Was The Interesting Aspect Of It To Me - How Really Tenuous Our Sanity Is.

We Are The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Writing Fiction Is For Me A Fraught Business, An Occasion Of Daily Dread For At Least The First Half Of The Novel, And Sometimes All The Way Through. The Work Process Is Totally Different From Writing Nonfiction. You Have To Sit Down Every Day And Make It Up.

The Ability To Think For One's Self Depends Upon One's Mastery Of The Language.

I Was No Longer, If I Had Ever Been, Afraid To Die: I Was Now Afraid Not To Die.