Rarely Does One See A Squirrel Tremble.

I Was Thinking About The Generation Before Us, Like John Barth And All Of Those Pomo Dudes Who Had That Idea Of, Instead Of Hiding The Structure And Making It Look Organic And Natural, We're Going To Put The Structure On The Outside. But Most Of The Time, At Least For Me, All I Could Attend To [in Swing Time] Was That Act Of Structural Self-consciousness.

We Cannot Be All The Writers All The Time. We Can Only Be Who We Are. Which Leads Me To My Second Point: Writers Do Not Write What They Want, They Write What They Can.

I Never Attended A Creative Writing Class In My Life. I Have A Horror Of Them.

She Loved You In The Morning Because The Day Was New.

One Thing You Learn About The Novel As A Form Is That It's Always Smarter Than You Are.