I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.
You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.
People do not read, by and large. They watch television.
I always had good students.
History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.