And Out Of A Desire

The Issue Of Torture, Connected To American Soldiers, Is Not Somewhere Most People Want To Linger. We May Not Want To Confront This Issue So Much In The U.s. Because Of How We Want To Think About Our Veterans. There's The Sense That We Want To Think Of Our Veterans As - If They're Damaged, Damaged By Something Glamorous, Like A Firefight.

The Best Thing About Writing Programs Is That It Rationalized The Apprenticeship Of A Writer.

The Way I Feel About Every Book Is This: You Don't Finish It, You Abandon It. All Of My Books Have In Some Sense Failed, Otherwise I Wouldn't Write Another One. If I Wrote The Perfect Book, I Wouldn't Have To Write Again, And I Wouldn't Want To. That's Not True For Everyone, But It's True For Me. I Could Walk Away Then. But So Far I Haven't Managed To Do It.

One Of The Most Difficult Things To Say To Another Person Is, 'i Hope That You Will Love Me For No Good Reason.' But It Is What We All Want And Rarely Dare To Say To One Another, To Our Children, To Our Parents And Mates, To Our Friends, And To Strangers, Especially To Strangers Who Have Neither Good, Nor Bad Reasons To Love Us.

Although I Still Occasionally Paint And Draw, My Life Has Now Been Shaped By My Writing.