People See Everything Through The Lens Of

Like Seeing A Photograph Of Yourself As A Child, Encountering Handwriting That You Know Was Once Yours But That Now Seems Only Dimly Familiar Can Inspire A Confrontation With The Mystery Of Time.

Words Are The Raw Material Out Of Which Literature Is Crafted.

I Know A Lot Of Eastern Europeans, And Because Of What They Have Been Through And What They Have Seen, They Have An Attitude Where They Are Not Easily Fooled.

You Aim For What You Want And If You Don't Get It, You Don't Get It, But If You Don't Aim, You Don't Get Anything.

I Wrote About Four Novels Before I Wrote A Word Of Journalism.