wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.
I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.
And never forget, there is memory.
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!