If You're Alive, Make A Lot Of

Anybody Can Direct, But There Are Only Eleven Good Writers.

I Started With [leo] Tolstoy And I Was Overwhelmed. Tolstoy Writes Like An Ocean, In Huge, Rolling Waves, And It Doesn't Look Like It Was Processed Through His Thinking. It Feels Very Natural. You Don't Question Whether Tolstoy's Right Or Wrong. His Philosophy Is Housed In Interrelating Characters, So It's Not Up For Grabs.

Every Human Being Has Hundreds Of Separate People Living Under His Skin.

The Brilliance Of Max Brooks Is That He Always Quotes Authorities At The Back Of His Books That Never Existed. Like A Russian Professor He Made Up That Validates A Story Or Character.

I Had Low Blood Sugar, A Chemical Imbalance, Plus The Normal Nervous Breakdown Everyone Goes Through From Adolescence To Adulthood.