Time Does Nothing But Hand You Down

I Tend To Wait For True Stories To Mature Into Fiction. Most Of My Fiction Grew Out Of A Long-germinating Real-life Situation.

Literature Is Always Something - It Is Either Story Or Poetry, Ideally Both. That Is, You Always Know What It Is And Even If The Interpretation Is Not Available, The Experience Of Language Is.

There's Something In Psychology Called The Narrative Paradigm, Which Essentially Means That We Think Of Our Lives As Stories In Which We Are The Main Characters.

To Me There's No Difference Between A Book Of Stories And A Novel - They're Just Slightly Different Shapes.

I Think About The Story While I Think About Other Things. This Is An Important Part Of The Process: I Look At It Sideways. If I Look Straight At It, It Produces Nothing Other Than What Seem Like Complicated, Brilliant Designs That Fall Apart The Following Morning. In Some Way Stories Mature When You're Not Looking.