The Writing Life
Notes on writing, reading, publishing and life
My fiction writing has always been the work of my heart, my private world, the hardest thing I do, and the thing that gives me the most pleasure. That said, it has almost never paid my rent… although my skill as a writer has. It took me a long time to recognize that the writing life I have lived was far more interesting than what I imagined when I was young and thought “success” would be an academic job, a kindly and devoted editor, recognition in New York, and a string of well-loved books one of which would become an Oscar-winning film. (Full disclosure: I would still like that!)
—Excerpt from an interview with Writers Connection, September 2021