I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.
Swimming always cleans your soul
I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.
At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention.