Updike And Bellow And Roth Were My

I Don't Write For An Audience, I Don't Think Whether My Book Will Sell, I Don't Sell It Before I Finish Writing It.

I Am A Totally Public Person.

Part Of It Is Living In Tennessee. I'm So Out Of The Loop. And As A Person, I'm Out Of The Loop. I'm Oblivious By Nature.

When I Wrote Nonfiction, My Best Work Was The Really Personal Stuff.

There Was No One Clear Point Of Loss. It Happened Over And Over Again In A Thousand Small Ways And The Only Truth There Was To Learn Was That There Was No Getting Used To It.