It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

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.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

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.

I know important literary writers who can't get published.

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?"