I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.

If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.

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.

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.

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

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?"

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