I Have To Get Out

Recasting Fairy Tales Has Become A Publishing Sub-genre In Itself, And Has Been Done Both Well And To The Point Of Entropy. More Interesting Are Those Works Where The Structures Of Fairytales Are Abandoned But The World Of 'fairy' Is Imported As A Delicate Spice.

Rationally Speaking, Blaming One's Behavior On Alcohol Or Drugs Is Like Blaming The Ladder By Which You Descended Into A Pit, Or The Staircase That Took You Down To A Cellar, For What You Found There.

The Poetry And Transgression That Was So Much Of Surrealism's Anarchic Force Has Been Recruited Into Mainstream Culture. It Has Been Made Commonplace By Television And Magazine Merchandising, By Computer Games And Internet Visuals, By Film And Mtv, By The Fashion Shoot.

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.

I've Been A Professional Writer For 20 Years, And There Are Contours In That Time, Crescents And Troughs.