I'm Writing Books. They're Still A Mix

I Don't Speak With Proper Grammar. I Don't Speak With Dialogue Attribution. I Don't Speak With Quotation. I Don't Care About Any Of That Stuff. It's About Rhythm, And It's About What's In Their [the Character's] Head, And What Feels More Natural. And It's About Speed. I Want Things To Move.

I Always Wanted To Write A Book About La, A Big Ambitious Book. Nobody Had Ever Really Done It With La- Treating The City Seriously As A Major Economic And Cultural Power, As The Embodiment Of 21st Century America.

I Hope Nobody Took The Razzle Dazzle Rose.

I Go To My Room And I Drink And I Smoke Some Cigarettes And I Think About Her. I Drink And I Smoke And I Think About Her And At A Certain Point Blackness Comes And My Memory Fails Me.

Everything I Know And I Am And I Have Seen Felt Done Past Present Past Now Then Before Now Seen Felt Done Hurt Felt Focus Into A Something Beyond Words Beyond Beyond Beyond And It Speaks Now And It Says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take It.