Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.
John UpdikeThe heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.
John UpdikeThe - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.
John Updike