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In The Army You Feel Violated - There's No Private Space. Writing Was A Life-saver, A Way Of Recovering Private Territory.

You Take A Book, And What Can You Do With A Book? Can You Cook An Egg On A Book? No. Can You Dig A Hole? No. Is It A Good Weapon? No. The Fact That It's Good For Nothing Kind Of Makes It Almost All-important.

It's Kind Of A Reflex For Me To Ignore My Own Wishes And Think About Other People First.

It Took A Lot To Understand That The Interest In Both Writing A Story And Reading It Is Not In The Objective Dangers Someone Takes. You Don't Have To Fight Snakes Or Wake Up In A Strange Apartment To Have A Story; It's About What Goes On Inside Your Mind And Soul.

In America, Where Writers Are Preoccupied With The Craft Of Writing, I Always Try To Introduce This Concept Of The Badly Written Good Story. Turning The Hierarchy Around And Putting Passion On Top And Not Craft, Because When You Just Focus On Craft, You Can Write Something That Is Very Sterile.