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Comic Books Were Telling Me What Life Was About. This Was How I Kind Of Entered Life, Through Fiction.

A Man's Bookcase Will Tell You Everything You'll Ever Need To Know About Him," My Father Had Told Me More Than Once. "a Businessman Has Business Books And A Dream Has Novels And Books Of Poetry. Most Women Like Reading About Love, And A True Revolutionary Will Have Books About The Minutiae Of Overthrowing The Oppressor. A Person With No Books Is Inconsequential In A Modern Setting, But A Peasant That Reads Is A Prince In Waiting.

One Wouldn't Want To Say That What Makes A Good Writer Is The Number Of Books That The Writer Wrote Because You Could Write A Whole Number Of Bad Books. Books That Don't Work, Mediocre Books, Or There's A Whole Bunch Of People In The Pulp Tradition Who Have Done That. They Just Wrote... And Actually They Didn't Write A Whole Bunch Of Books, They Just Wrote One Book Many Times.

Many & Most Moments Go By With Us Hardly Aware Of Their Passage. But Love & Hate & Fear Cause Time To Snag You, To Drag You Down Like A Spider's Web Holding Fast To A Doomed Fly's Wings. And When You're Caught Like That You're Aware Of Every Moment & Movement & Nuance.

The Job Of The Writer Is To Take A Close And Uncomfortable Look At The World They Inhabit, The World We All Inhabit, And The Job Of The Novel Is To Make The Corpse Stink.