I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.