Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

Everybody should customize their names.

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.