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

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

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

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas someone who has written four books that are highly literary and demanding and require you as a reader. They may not be republished.