Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this writer could…

Childhood lays itself out, like a novel, he suggests, complete with central observer, fixed characters, and linear plot. Later, life disperses itself into anec…

His interviewing self is, or was, an extra person, like the Holy Ghost, generated by self-contemplation.

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twai…

This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide wha…