Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.