Whatever One Intends, The Work Takes On

It's Not About Having Things Figured Out, Or About Communicating With Other People, Trying To Make Them Understand What You Understand. It's About A Chicken Dinner At A Drive-in. A Soft Pillow. Things That Don't Need Explaining.

I Like A Lot Of Margaret Atwood, I Like Much Of Alice Munro. Again, If You Were To Ask Me About Male Writers, There's Often A Novel I Admire, But Not All Of Their Works.

I Could Name A Few Songs And Say Exactly What Summer They Came Out And What Boy I Thought I Was In Love With When I Was Fourteen Years Old, But I Think That Music Used To Be Really More A Part Of The Culture When People Went Out Dancing In A Different Way Than They Do Now.

There Is Some Reason, Obviously, That You Are Drawn To Your Material, But The Way In Which You Explore It Might Come To Be Quite Different From What You Would Expect.

While I Would Agree That I Write About Serious Subjects, And That They're Not Necessarily The Most Pleasant Subjects Or Even The Most Pleasant People, As A Writer I Just Think About The Humorous Aspects Of These Things - That's What Keeps Me Going When I'm Writing A Story.