I Think Writers Are Excited By Stupidity

The Middle Class Is Doing Fine In Fiction. But It's Not What Gets Me Going. I Love The Working Class, And Everyone From It I've Met, And Think They're Incredibly Witty, Inventive - There's A Lot Of Poetry There.

The True Manipulator Never Has A Reputation For Manipulating.

Love Is Blind; But It Makes You See The Blind Man; Teetering On The Roadside . . .

Style Is Not Neutral; It Gives Moral Directions.

Saul Bellow Says, Funny Enough, What French Think Of Your Work Is Tremendously Important. And It Is. It's More Than What The Italians, The Spanish, And The Germans Think. Somehow It's Still Got That Cultural Primacy. I Feel That Too: To Get Praised In France Is Better Than To Get Praised Anywhere Else.