The Blood In My Veins

I've Been A Professional Writer For 20 Years, And There Are Contours In That Time, Crescents And Troughs.

The Poetry And Transgression That Was So Much Of Surrealism's Anarchic Force Has Been Recruited Into Mainstream Culture. It Has Been Made Commonplace By Television And Magazine Merchandising, By Computer Games And Internet Visuals, By Film And Mtv, By The Fashion Shoot.

The Modern Superstition Is That We're Free Of Superstition.

The Thing Is, When Everyone Is Trying To Persuade You That A Thing You Know To Be True Isn't Actually True, You Start To Believe Them: Not Because It Is True But Because It's Easier. It's Just The Easy Way Out.

If Critics Of 'readable Fiction' Want Literature To Change The Ways People Dream, They Need First To Come Down From The Mountain And Speak To The People.