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.

When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.

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

I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.

We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.

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.