Choose Your Agent As Carefully

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.

For Almost Anyone Who Chooses To Be A Writer, Since So Very Few Writers Are Able To Learn A Living From Their Work That Is Equivalent To The Living Earned By The Average Dentist Or Accountant.

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

First Of All It's Usually Women Who Run These Higher Primate Sanctuaries, Rarely Men. They Are White. They Come From Privileged Backgrounds. They Are Educated.

It's Hard To Spend Years At A Time Working In Total Solitude With No Reality-check.