I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing.

I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.

I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck.

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.