I Didnt Have Any Particular

It's Hard To Make Something That's Interesting. It's Really, Really Hard. It's Like A Law Of Nature, A Law Of Aerodynamics, That Anything That's Written Or Anything That's Created Wants To Be Mediocre. The Natural State Of All Writing Is Mediocrity... So What It Takes To Make Anything More Than Mediocre Is Such An Act Of Will.

But Sadly, One Of The Problems With Being On Public Radio Is That People Tend To Think You're Being Sincere All The Time.

You Will Be Stupid. You Will Worry Your Parents. You Will Question Your Own Choices, Your Relationships, Your Jobs, Your Friends, Where You Live, What You Studied In College, That You Went To College At All... If That Happens, You're Doing It Right.

It's Not A Terribly Original Thing To Say, But I Love Raymond Carver. For One Thing, He's Fun To Read Out Loud.

In Some Theoretical Way I Know That A Half-million People Hear The Show. But In A Day-to-day Way, There's Not Much Evidence Of It.