People Sometimes Get In The Habit Of

By Ignoring A Lot Of American Culture You Can Write More Interesting Stories. Unfortunately, If You Were Writing About America As It Is, You'd Be Writing About A Lot Of People Sitting In Front Of Television Sets.

There Are A Great Many Sins In This World, None Of Them Original.

Even At Its Most Perceptive, Sociology Deals In Abstractions.

I Was Pretty Dead Set Against Ever Writing An Academic Novel. It's Always Been My View That There Are Already More Than Enough Academic Novels And That Most Of Them Aren't Any Good. Most Of Them Are Self-conscious And Bitter, The Work Of People Who Want To Settle Grudges.

Was Anything In The World Truer Than That Intuitive Leap Of The Heart?