The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.
It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.
I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.