You Become A Serious Novelist By Living

One Of My Earliest Memories As A Reader - I Don't Know How Old I Was, Quite Young - Was A Poem Of His, Called "fog," And I Remember The First Verse, "the Fog Comes / On Little Cat Feet".

Writers In Repressive Societies Are Considered Dangerous. That's Why So Many Of Them Are In Jail.

Not Long Ago, A Novelist Could Believe He Could Have An Effect On Our Consciousness Of Terror. Today, The Men Who Shape And Inflence Human Consciousness Are The Terrorists.

War Is The Form Nostalgia Takes When Men Are Hard-pressed To Say Something Good About Their Country.

Stories Have No Point If They Don't Absorb Our Terror.