People Think That Writing Is Writing, But

There Was A Positive Side To Not Trying At Something: You Could Always Pretend That Your Life Would Have Been Different If You Had.

I Think A Book That Is Over 400 Pages Should Be Split In Two. I Don't Know That There's Anything That Interesting That Can Go On For 700 Pages. I Think That Is A Little Bit Indulgent.

Much Of The Image Of The Amazingness Of America Comes From The Movies Into Other Cultures. And It's Much The Same Thing When You Reverse It. Much Of Africa Is Presented Through Poverty, Through Drought And War. [but] You're Not Presenting People, You're Not Presenting Countries, You're Not Presenting Complexity, And So People Can't Care About An Amorphous Mass Called Africa.

Time Was The Only Variable In Every Equation Of Power And Oppression--how Long Before The Pot Boiled Over.

Since I Hold No Judgments Against My Characters, No Matter How Heinous They Might Seem, I Present Them As Real People With Their Own Moral Centers. We Might Feel Those Moral Centers Are Mis-calibrated, But They Are There And Are The Rudders That Propel Them. This Makes Reading My Work A Visceral Roller Coaster, 'cause The Reader Must Embark On The Journey Of The Protagonist Equipped Only With His Or Her Own Moral Center.