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

Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

I know important literary writers who can't get published.

Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"

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

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.