If There's One Thing I

Faulkner Turned Out To Be A Great Teacher. When A Student Asked A Question Ineptly, He Answered The Question With What The Student Had Really Wanted To Know.

Henry Miller Wrote Novels, But He Calls His Protagonist Henry, Often Henry Miller, And His Books Are In This Gray Area Between Memoir And Novel.

It's So Wrong When I Pick Up A New Edition Of Huckleberry Finn And I Look At The Last Page And It Doesn't Say, Yours Truly, At The End.

My Assignment Is What Every Writer's Assignment Is: Tell The Truth Of His Own Time.

I Think Henry Miller Has Had Huge Influence Not Because He Wrote About Sex, But Because The Memoir Or The Nonfiction Novel Has Become Such A Monumental Force In American Publishing, If Not In Literature.