I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:that Scotland has so few trees.

I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don’t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I’m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.