The Use Of Music Is To Remind

The Midwest Is Such A Tabula Rasa.

The Oldest Principle Of Composition: Repeat Everything.

Until I Was 42, I Could Fit Everything That I Owned Into Two Suitcases.

Time Passes, As The Novelist Says. The Single Most Useful Trick Of Fiction For Our Repair And Refreshment: The Defeat Of Time. A Century Of Family Saga And A Ride Up An Escalator Can Take The Same Number Of Pages. Fiction Sets Any Conversion Rate, Then Changes It In A Syllable. The Narrator’s Mother Carries Her Child Up The Stairs And The Reader Follows, For Days. But World War I Passes In A Paragraph. I Needed 125 Pages To Get From Labor Day To Christmas Vacation. In Six More Words, Here’s Spring.

In 25 Years Of Writing Novels, I've Never Had Anything That Felt Like Writer's Block.