I Don't Want To Get Hung Up

If The Culture Is So All Pervasive That You Can’t Think Outside Of It, How Are You Making Genuine Choices?

She Touched His Hand For The Last Time. "oh, Karim, That We Have Already Done. But Always There Was A Problem Between Us. How Can I Explain? I Wasn't Me, And You Weren't You. From The Very Beginning To The Very End, We Didn't See Things. What We Did--we Made Each Other Up." P. 382

I Guess There's A Sort Of Cycle With Writing Books. There's All The Researching And Then The Imagining And Writing - Which Is The Real Job - And Then There's Always A Period When The Book Comes Out And You Have To Lift Your Head And Venture Out.

I Don't Want To Get Hung Up On What 'people,' That Nebulous Mass, Think About Me. That's The Way To Unhappiness, I Think.

I Always Try To Create Conflict And Drama In My Books; It's The Engine Of The Novel.