In Poland, My Audience Is All Women

In Poland, My Audience Is All Women Between 18 And 30. At U.s. Conventions, You Have The Fantasy And Science Fiction Crowd. At Harvard You Have An Entirely Different Audience. It's So Schizophrenic.

The Keys That Unlock The Heart Are Made Of Funny Materials: A Disarming Phrase That Comes Out Of The Blue, Nowhere, A Certain Sexy Walk That Sends You Reeling, The Way Someone Hums When She Is Alone. My Father Said It Was The Way My Mother Danced With Him.

Far More Disturbing Than Any Spook House At An Amusement Park Is A Ride Through The Old Hometown If You've Been Away For Years.

A Short Story Is A Sprint, A Novel Is A Marathon. Sprinters Have Seconds To Get From Here To There And Then They Are Finished. Marathoners Have To Carefully Pace Themselves So That They Don't Run Out Of Energy (or In The Case Of The Novelist-- Ideas) Because They Have So Far To Run. To Mix The Metaphor, Writing A Short Story Is Like Having A Short Intense Affair, Whereas Writing A Novel Is Like A Long Rich Marriage.

Some People Are Like Blue Jeans- The Older And More Beat Up They Get, The Better They Look.