Anything A Man Can Do, I Can

People Think That Writing Is Writing, But Actually Writing Is Editing. Otherwise, You're Just Taking Notes

Fiction Is More Dangerous Than Nonfiction Because It Can Seduce Better. I Think We All Know This, Know That Deeper Truths Can Be Approached In Fiction Than In Fact. There Are Risks For The Reader, Because After Reading Certain Books You Find You Have Changed Irreversibly. There Are Risks For Writers: In China, Now, And Ethiopia And Other Countries Right Now, Writers Face Real Persecution.

If There Was No Risk, It Wouldn't Be Art. It Wouldn't Be Worth Making. There Is Risk Even In A Fairy Tale. Fiction Is Closest To Pure Narrative, And Pure Narrative Is Simply The Logic We Try To Impose On An Ever-changing Reality.

Fiction Is Risky For Writers Also In That The Process Of Making Certain Books, Of Shaping Certain Narratives, Leaves Scars And Marks On Your Inner Life.

Men Do Communicate, Often Very Directly, But Women Sometimes Cannot Accept How Simple What We Have To Say Is. We Seldom Play Games--we Aren't That Sophisticated.