I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

The best defense is a good story.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

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

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.

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.