I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.

I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

I get to meet writers, and I love writers.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

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.

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?"