If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.

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.

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

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

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

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