I've Never Written Nearly As

I Think The Darker Aspect Of My Fiction-or Anybody's Fiction-is By Its Very Nature Somehow Easier To Talk About.

Worse, I Have To Admit To Feeling The Jealousy Of One Crab For Another That Has Managed To Climb Out Of The Barrel.

To His Surprise He Also Discovered That It Was Possible To Be Good At What You Had Little Interest In, Just As It Had Been Possible To Be Bad At Something, Whether Painting Or Poetry, That You Cared About A Great Deal.

I Want That Which Is Hilarious And That Which Is Heartbreaking To Occupy The Same Territory In The Book Because I Think They Very Often Occupy The Same Territory In Life, Much As We Try To Separate Them.

They Stayed, Many Of Them, Because Staying Was Easier And Less Scary Than Leaving.