what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write fiction effectively for about three or at the most four hours. No big mysteries, I just sit down and try to advance the cause a little bit every day.

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.