A Novelist Has A Specific Poetic License

People Say, "well, You Went On Television, It Enlarged Your Readership." It Did Not At All, Not At All. I Might As Well Tell You, I Lost Some Readership, Because The Profound Audience Felt Somehow Bothered By My Too Easy Manner.

I Write For A Certain Sphere Of Readers In The United States Who On Average Watch Seven And A Half Hours Of Multichannel Television Per Day.

I Suppress In My Prose Any Language Which Calls Attention To Itself.

Homelessness Is A Part Of Our American System. There Should Be Nothing Wrong With This Condition As Long As The Individual Is Not Sentenced To Unnecessary Suffering And Punishment.

- Growth Has Its Season. There Are Spring And Summer, But There Are Also Fall And Winter. And Then Spring And Summer Again. As Long As The Roots Are Not Severed, All Is Well And All Be Well.