Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

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?"

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

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

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

When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.