The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more vague sense of where things may wind up, but at some point, if the novel is any good at all, the story and characters take on lives of their own and take over the book, and the writer has to be open to that.

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

a dream is only a memory of the future

These days in particular it seems not only unavoidable but even irresponsible to not acknowledge politics in some way.

It wouldn't have occurred to me that while this old white man, which is to say me, was voting for Hillary Clinton, white women were choosing an overt misogynist [Donald Trump] over the first woman president. Someone will have to explain that one to me someday.