I Try To Avoid Experience If I

Facts Are The Images Of History, Just As Images Are The Facts Of Fiction.

We Dress Them [children] In The Presumptions Of The World. They Are The Bright Small Face Of Hope. They Are The Last Belief We Have, The Belief In Making Them Believe.

A Writer's Life Is So Hazardous That Anything He Does Is Bad For Him. Anything That Happens To Him Is Bad: Failure's Bad, Success Is Bad; Impoverishment Is Bad, Money Is Very, Very Bad. Nothing Good Can Happen... Except The Act Of Writing.

It May Be That The Most Avid Readers Of New Fiction In America Today Are Film Producers, An Indication Of The Trouble Were In.

A Writer Of Books Has To Admit That Film Is The Enemy, And That In My Case I Have Been Sleeping With The Enemy.