How Will You Know A Good Farmer

A Reader's Tastes Are Peculiar. Choosing Books To Read Is Like Making Your Way Down A Remote And Winding Path. Your Stops On That Path Are Always Idiosyncratic. One Book Leads To Another And Another The Way One Thought Leads To Another And Another. My Type Of Reader Is The Sort Who Burrows Through The Stacks In The Bookstore Or The Library (or The Web Site — Stacks Are Stacks), Yielding To Impulse And Instinct.

Before I Write A Novel, Images Float Around In My Head That Work Like Icons - They Are Meaningless In Themselves, But Serve As Reminders.

There Is A Sociology Of Horses, As Well As A Psychology. It Is Most Evident In The World Of Horse Racing, Where Many Horses Are Gathered Together, Where Year After Year, Decade After Decade, They Do The Same, Rather Simple Thing - Run In Races And Try To Win.

A Bookstore Is One Of The Few Places Where All The Cantankerous, Conflicting, Alluring Voices Of The World Co-exist In Peace And Order And The Avid Reader Is As Free As A Person Can Possibly Be, Because She Is Free To Choose Among Them.

When People Leave, They Always Seem To Scoop Themselves Out Of You.