When Writing A Novel, I'm Not Smart

We Permit Bad Taste In This Country. In Fact, We Even Encourage It - And Reward It In All Manner Of Ways.

She Felt Detached From Her Family, And Thought It Strange How They Had Lavished So Much Attention On Her, As A Child, And Then At Some Appointed, Prearranged Time They Seemed To Stop The Flow Of Affection And Being The Expectations - As If, For A Brief Phrase, You Were Expected To Absorb Love (and Get Enough), And Then, For A Much Longer And More Serious Phase, You Were Expected To Fulfill Certain Obligations.

I've Always Preferred Writing In Longhand. I've Always Written First Drafts In Longhand.

In The World According To Garp, We Are All Terminal Cases

I'm Old-fashioned, A Storyteller. I'm Not An Analyst And I'm Not An Intellectual.