Fiction is always really a labor.
For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.