Like Art And Politics, Gangsterism Is A

I Worry About Images. Images Are What Things Mean.

Because Like All Whores You Value Propriety. You Are Creature Of Capitalism, The Ethics Of Which Are So Totally Corrupt And Hypocritical That Your Beauty Is No More Than The Beauty Of Gold, Which Is To Say False And Cold And Useless.

What We Call Fiction Is The Ancient Way Of Knowing, The Total Discourse That Antedates All The Special Vocabularies....fiction Is Democratic, It Reasserts The Authority Of The Single Mind To Make And Remake The World.

The Historian Will Tell You What Happened. The Novelist Will Tell You What It Felt Like.

One Of The Things I Had To Learn As A Writer Was To Trust The Act Of Writing. To Put Myself In The Position Of Writing To Find Out What I Was Writing.