I Don't Pick And Choose

In General, Questions Are Fine; You Can Always Seize Upon The Parts Of Them That Interest You And Concentrate On Answering Those. And One Has To Remember When Answering Questions That Asking Questions Isn't Easy Either, And For Someone Who's Quite Shy To Stand Up In An Audience To Speak Takes Some Courage.

It Is Exciting To Write About The Present Once One Gets Beyond The Trivia Of The Moment. As A Time To Live In, As A Time To Think About, The Present Is Intriguing.

And The Process Of Reading Is Such A Private One. I Once Came Into A Room Where A Friend Of Mine Was Reading One Of My Books, And He Clicked His Tongue Impatiently And Shooed Me Off.

All You Who Sleep Tonight Far From The Ones You Love, No Hand To Left Or Right, An Emptiness Above-- Know That You Aren't Alone. The Whole World Shares Your Tears, Some For Two Nights Or One, And Some For All Your Years.

I Certainly Think Its Very Important That Writers As Citizens - Not Necessarily As Writers, But Just As Ordinary Citizens - Should Talk About Things That Matter To Them.