I Must Write The Book Out In

I've Lost Audiences, I've Recovered Them.

In A World Torn By Every Kind Of Fundamentalism - Religious, Ethnic, Nationalist And Tribal - We Must Grant First Place To Economic Fundamentalism, With Its Religious Conviction That The Market, Left To Its Own Devices, Is Capable Of Resolving All Our Problems. This Faith Has Its Own Ayatollahs. Its Church Is Neo-liberalism; Its Creed Is Profit; Its Prayers Are For Monopolies.

Writing Is A Struggle Against Silence.

The Contract Between The Author And The Reader Is A Game. And The Game . . . Is One Of The Greatest Invetions Of Western Civilization: The Game Of Telling Stories, Inventing Characters, And Creating The Imaginary Paradise Of The Individual, From Whence No One Can Be Expelled Because, In A Novel, No One Owns The Truth And Everyone Has The Right To Be Heard And Understood.

I Don't Think Any Good Book Is Based On Factual Experience. Bad Books Are About Things The Writer Already Knew Before He Wrote Them.