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Writing Fiction Is For Me A Fraught Business, An Occasion Of Daily Dread For At Least The First Half Of The Novel, And Sometimes All The Way Through. The Work Process Is Totally Different From Writing Nonfiction. You Have To Sit Down Every Day And Make It Up.

Any Compulsion Tries To Justify Itself.

It's Hard To Find A Book That's Safe To Write. Because One Always Goes To Dark Or Difficult Places.

Let Me Just Be In The Ground. Let Me Just Be In The Ground And Go To Sleep.

Life Changes Fast. Life Changes In The Instant. You Sit Down To Dinner And Life As You Know It Ends.