As Long As There's One Person To

The Things We Remember Are Often Things That Have Great Emotional Importance, And So They Have A Lasting Effect.

While I Was Writing Poems, I Would Often Divert Myself By Reading Detective Novels, I Liked Them. And There Was A Period When I Read Many Of Them. I Absorbed The Form, And I Liked It, It Was A Good One, Mostly The Hard-boiled School, You Know, Chandler, Hammett, And Their Heirs. That Was The Direction That Interested Me Most.

You Have To Really Have A Taste For Being Alone To Be A Writer.

As Long As A Man Had The Courage To Reject What Society Told Him To Do, He Could Live Life On His Own Terms. To What End? To Be Free. But Free To What End? To Read Books, To Write Books, To Think.

The Kind Of Fiction I'm Trying To Write Is About Telling The Truth.