In A Certain Sense, A Writer Is

Solitude. One Knows Instinctively It Has Benefits That Must Be More Deeply Satisfying Than Those Of Other Conditions, But Still It Is Difficult.

If You Write Enough, You Begin To Learn To Do Things. But In A Way, You Do Start From Zero Each Time.

I Like To Write About Certain Things That If They Are Not Written About Are Not Going To Exist.

In General, American Life Is More Easy-going. And Civic Pride, National Pride In A Cultural Sense, Is Great In America. I Think What They Esteem In America Is Character And Energy, And Being Different And Superior To Other Peoples. Of Course, Every Nation Feels Itself To Be Superior, But In America It's A Jaunty Feeling, And In Some Cases A Rather Ominous One Among The Super-patriots.

You Are Perfectly Entitled To Invent Your Life And To Claim That It's True.