The First Thing You Have To Know

I Never Really Thought I'd Be Successful. I Never Though I'd Get Books Published, But This Was Something Completely Beyond Me. The Fact That It Happened Is Wonderful, But It Is Not Something That I Was Aiming For.

One Of The Things That I Love About Being A Writer Is This. I Wake Up Every Day And I Write For Three Hours. I Wake Up Early. So Like 6:00, 7:00 In The Morning, I Write Till 9:00 Or 10:00. I Live In New York, Nobody Even Is Breathing Until 9:00 Or 10:00 In The Morning. So, It's Like My Writing Life Is Completely Removed From The Rest Of My Life.

My Father Cared About The World He Lived In, And So He Admitted His Confusion About His Place In America Because He Didn't Want Me To Make The Same Mistake In My Life.

We Born Dyin'...but You Ask A Man An' He Talk Like He Gonna Live Forevah.

... We Must Remember That There's More Than One Story And Plot In Every Novel. There Are At Least As Many Stories As There Are Main Characters, And Each Of These Stories Has To Have Multiple Plots To Keep It Going - Blood And Bone, Nerve And Tissue, Forgotten Longing And Unknown Events.