The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history and with the present in which they are trying to make their way. So that the books are simultaneously about public and interior events. And I am having a great time getting confused and crazed writing about them.

The best defense is a good story.

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.