Young Girls Are Sad. They

I'd Like To Write The Way Matisse Paints.

I Like Feeling My Way Into Different Minds And Experiences. It Comes Naturally And Always Has.

The More Research You Do, The More At Ease You Are In The World You're Writing About. It Doesn't Encumber You, It Makes You Free.

I Have A Dreadful Fear That The More You Try To Prevent Revealing The Self The More You Do.

Narration Is As Much A Part Of Human Nature As Breath And The Circulation Of The Blood.... Storytelling Is Intrinsic To Biological Time, Which We Cannot Escape. Life, Pascal Said, Is Like Living In A Prison From Which Every Day Fellow Prisoners Are Taken Away To Be Executed. We Are All, Like Scheherazade, Under Sentence Of Death, And We All Think Of Our Lives As Narratives, With Beginnings, Middles And Ends.