I Am Less Interested In

If I Couldn't Get Published Tomorrow I'd Still Be Writing. It's Something To Do With Feeling So Overwhelmed By This Experience Of Life That You Have To Tell Someone About It, And In A Way That Reorders The Experience To Make It Manageable.

George Orwells 1984 Frequently Tops Surveys Of Our Greatest Books: Its Not A Celebration Of Poetic Language. Its Decidedly Anti-literary, A Masterpiece Of Personal And Political Narrative Sequence. And Its Subject Matter Is Crucial, Because What 1984 Shows Is That Language Can Be A Dirty Trick.

Perhaps Writers Should Never Be Allowed To Get Together In A Workplace Context. It's Not Like Studying Computer Science, After All. The Emotions Are At Large, And Are Shared And Are Questioned. There Is A Vulnerability.

Plutocracy.' It Has A Perfect Nuance: Chilly, Inaccessible, Icy-rich.

I'd Defend The Right For Any Novelist To Experiment With Form Or Language, But If People Don't Take To It, Don't React By Making Out That They Are Thick.