The Person We Know At First, She

Increasingly I Think Of Myself As Some Strange And Solitary Conductor, Introduced To A Group Of Very Dynamic Musicians Who Happen To Be My Characters, And I Have No Idea How They Are Going To Play Together, And I Have Certainly No Idea How I Am Going To Put Manners On Them.

Yet She Likes Complications. She Wishes She Could Turn And Say: I Like People Who Unbalance Me.

The Person We Know At First, She Thinks, Is Not The One We Know At Last.

The Contemporary American Novelist Benefits In A Way From Being Ignored. It Makes You Angrier And Makes You Want To Go Into All Of Those Places Where You Shouldnt.

We Shape Ourselves By Our Imaginative Reach.