When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I’m continually inspired and write reflexively.
When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I’m continually inspired and write reflexively.
In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile… a stain upon the silence.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.
Even when I’m writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I’m writing for.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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