People Usually Don't Allow You

He Misses The Feeling Of Creating Something Out Of Something. That’s Right — Something Out Of Something. Because Something Out Of Nothing Is When You Make Something Up Out Of Thin Air, In Which Case It Has No Value. Anybody Can Do That. But Something Out Of Something Means It Was Really There The Whole Time, Inside You, And You Discover It As Part Of Something New, That’s Never Happened Before.

I Have To Admit That Talking Authoritatively About My Students' Stories Can Make Me Feel, At Times, Like An Astronaut Who Has Just Landed On A New Planet And Insists On Giving Guided Tours To Its Inhabitants.

It's Kind Of A Reflex For Me To Ignore My Own Wishes And Think About Other People First.

The Moment That You Have A Child - That You Know That When He'll Turn 18, He'll Join The Army And Go There For Three Years Of Compulsory Service - Then You Can't Help Yourself Of Thinking About The Future - Speculating About It, Dreading It Or Even Being - Trying To Be More Active To Change It And Improve It.

My First And Biggest Love Was Always Fiction Writing. But It Is A Very Lonely Pastime.