We Born Dyin'...but You Ask A Man

... You Should Wait Until The Book Is Finished Before Making A Judgment On Its Content. By The Time You Have Gone Through Twenty Drafts, The Characters May Have Developed Lives Of Their Own, Completely Separate From The People You Based Them On In The Beginning. And Even If Someone, At Some Time, Gets Upset With Your Words - So What? Live Your Life, Sing Your Song. Anyone Who Loves You Will Want You To Have That.

A Man's Bookcase Will Tell You Everything You'll Ever Need To Know About Him," My Father Had Told Me More Than Once. "a Businessman Has Business Books And A Dream Has Novels And Books Of Poetry. Most Women Like Reading About Love, And A True Revolutionary Will Have Books About The Minutiae Of Overthrowing The Oppressor. A Person With No Books Is Inconsequential In A Modern Setting, But A Peasant That Reads Is A Prince In Waiting.

My Job Is Writing For People To Enjoy And Then Writing About A Broader And A Deeper World.

Readers No Longer Need Novelists To Tell Us What It's Like To Cross The World On A Ship Or Fight A War. In The Twenty-first Century, We Get That Information In Other Ways. The Thing That's Still A Mystery To Us Is The Human Heart. What We Want Is To Understand People, What They're Doing, And Why They're Doing It.

People Don't Understand How Hard It Is To Get Recognized, How Hard It Is To Get People To Read Your Books. How Hard It Is To Get People To Even To Understand What They're Reading When They're Talking To You About Their Books.