Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth....
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the...
I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race...
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world then...
Whatever your supposed politics are - left right - if you put it in a human...
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon if that generation is...
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing....
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something it hasn't happened anymore.
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words...
The universal human laws - need love for the beloved fear hunger periodic...
The stores and the things like that the business side of things came out at the point when I'd say probably in the early '70s it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.
