People Will Always Tell Stories. The Publishing

To Me There's No Difference Between A Book Of Stories And A Novel - They're Just Slightly Different Shapes.

There's Something In Psychology Called The Narrative Paradigm, Which Essentially Means That We Think Of Our Lives As Stories In Which We Are The Main Characters.

New York Is The Hollywood Of The Publishing Industry, Complete With Stars, Starlets, Suicidal Publishers/producers, Intrigues, And A Lot Of Money.

There Are Studies That Have Shown That We Make Decisions, Ethical And Otherwise, Based On The Way We Imagine Ourselves As Characters In The Stories Of Our Lives. In Other Words, If We Imagine Ourselves Brave Or Crazy Or Open, We're More Likely To Make Decisions In A Given Situation Based On How We Imagine Ourselves, Whatever The Facts May Be.

I've Never Had A Stupid Student In My Life. I Never Look Down On My Students. I Never Thought, "look At These People." I Might Argue With Them And I Think That Some Of Them Might Have Misconceptions - That They Might Be Infected By The Intellectual Laziness That Is The Foundation Of American Popular Culture, And Of Capitalism, If You Wish. But Part Of My Job As A Teacher Is To Work With That - Against That.