My First And Biggest Love Was Always

I Rarely Return To Characters. My Characters, At Least Most Of Them, Are Much More A Part Of That Superorganism That Is The Story Than Separate And Independent Creatures.

Writing A Story Is Kind Of Like Surfing, As Opposed To The Novel, Where You Use A Gps To Get Somewhere. With Surfing, You Kind Of Jump.

It's Kind Of A Reflex For Me To Ignore My Own Wishes And Think About Other People First.

I Think The Typical Way Is That Usually Holocaust Survivors Are Known To Be Very Quiet And Full Of Anxiety, Many Of Them Don't Like Life, Don't Trust People. But My Parents Were Children During The Holocaust. And My Father Was Very Optimistic.

I Used To Feel That If I Say Something's Wrong, I Have To Say How It Could Be Made Right. But What I Learned From Kurt Vonnegut Was That I Could Write Stories That Say I May Not Have A Solution, But This Is Wrong - That's Good Enough.