Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'.

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.