Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
I only understand realism.
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.