I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.
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.
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.
What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.
I know important literary writers who can't get published.
The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high school by people earnest, still, but maybe less well-prepared than we would want them to be - but not because they are stupid or churlish.