Washington D.c.! Congress Is Full Of Self-declared

I Suppose I'm Interested In Sorrow, Which Is Very Different From Depression Or Despair. Sorrow Is Continuous With The World; It Allows For Creativity.

I Resist When Someone Calls Me A Novelist: It Implies Some Kind Of Inherent Superiority Of The Novel. I'm Not A Novelist, I'm A Writer.

It's So Internalized, The Way Your Mind Works In Relation To Anything - It's A Process, But Then It Isn't. It's Working All The Time.

One Builds One's Life In Consistency; One Invests It With The Belief, However Unsupported By Reality, That One Has Always Been What One Is Now, That Even In One's Distant Past One Could Recognize The Seed From Which This Doomed Flower Has Bloomed.

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.