You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If Id listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If Id listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage they're causing, and they will not stop until they've run the world economy off a cliff.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.