I Am Often Asked The Question How

The Writer Isn't Made In A Vacuum. Writers Are Witnesses. The Reason We Need Writers Is Because We Need Witnesses To This Terrifying Century.

Images Break With A Small Ping, Their Destruction Is As Wonderful As Their Being, They Are Essentially Instruments Of Torture Exploding Through The Individual's Calloused Capacity To Feel Undifferentiated Emotions Full Of Longing And Dissatisfaction And Monumentality.

I Like Commas. I Detest Semi-colons — I Don’t Think They Belong In A Story. And I Gave Up Quotation Marks Long Ago. I Found I Didn’t Need Them, They Were Fly-specks On The Page.

Good Writing Is Supposed To Evoke Sensation In The Reader - Not The Fact That It Is Raining, But The Feeling Of Being Rained Upon.

Things That Appear On The Front Page Of The Newspaper As 'fact' Are Far More Dangerous Than The Games Played By A Novelist, And Can Lead To Wars.