This Is An Age Of

Thousands Of Miles Of Wheat, Indifference, And Self- Apology.

Well, People Have Been Wondering What's Going To Happen To The Novel For Two Hundred Years; Its Death Has Been Announced Many Times. You Know, I Think The Novel Keeps Redefining The World We Live In. What You Should Look For In A Novel Is A Window Nobody Else Is Looking Out Of, That Nobody Else Can Look Through. What You Look For Is A Voice. You Pick Up A Novel By Someone Such As Faulkner Or Hemingway And You Just Read Three Pages And You Know Who Wrote It. And That's What One Should Demand Of A Novelist.

The Revolution Eats Its Own. Capitalism Re-creates Itself.

Beauty, Like Male Ballet Dancers, Makes Some Men Afraid.

The Process Hasn't Changed, But The Writer Has Developed. I Still Get Up Every Morning And Go To Work.