Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.
My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing.
Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day.
There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to write. That desire, that need, is as palpable and relentless as any junkie's craving, and will possess me all day until I can park myself in a chair and do my work.
To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.
Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and deeper into the story.
I'm much more of a Leo than I am a Cancer.
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B. C.
I said to Mr. Pavarotti once. . . a marvelous man and a great artist. . . I said to him. . . "Maestro, I'm having trouble closing out a note so that it's almost as thin as a butter knife. . . finish it out quietly like that. " I said, "I have trouble doing that. What do you think I should do?" He said, "Justa close up your mouth. " That's all he said, and I fell on the floor. I thought he was gonna give me a dissertation.
I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been.