I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.Collection: Imagination
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.