You Aren't Sure If You're Making The

Do Not Whine... Do Not Complain. Work Harder. Spend More Time Alone.

I Could Talk More Directly In A Nonfiction Voice Than I Could In Fiction.

I Don't Have A Very Clear Idea Of Who The Characters Are Until They Start Talking.

Of Course, You Always Think About How It Will Be Read. I Always Aim For A Reading In One Sitting.

We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live...we Look For The Sermon In The Suicide, For The Social Or Moral Lesson In The Murder Of Five. We Interpret What We See, Select The Most Workable Of The Multiple Choices. We Live Entirely, Especially If We Are Writers, By The Imposition Of A Narrative Line Upon Disparate Images, By The "ideas" With Which We Have Learned To Freeze The Shifting Phantasmagoria Which Is Our Actual Experience.