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

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

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

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

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.

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?"

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.