It's Not The Gods But

You Have To Learn A Few Things, Which You Do Along The Way, But Basically, Poetry Is A Matter Of The Ear. Iambic Pentameters Or What Constitutes A Stanza Comes Naturally - Your Ears Will Know.

Fiction Basically Is A Form Of Gossip Where You Want To Enter Other People's Lives, The Lives Of People You Don't Know, And You Want To Know What's Going To Happen To Them.

I Need My Natural Laziness To Be Counteracted By Obsession In Order To Do Anything.

I Spent Many Years Of My Life As An Economist And Demographer. I Was Finally Distracted By Writing My Novels And Poetry. I'm Enormously Happy That Was The Case. I Feel That With Writing I Have Found My Metier.

Every Object Strives For Its Proper Place. A Book Seeks To Be Near Its Truest Admirer. Just As This Helpless Moth Seeks To Be Near The Candle That Infatuates Him.