I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion. Compression, saying as little as possible, making everything carry much more than is actually said. Conflict. Dialogue as part of an ongoing world, not just voices in a dark room. Never say the obvious. Skip the meet and greet.

The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out