When I'm In The Field, When I'm

I Used To Distinguish Between My Fiction And Nonfiction In Terms Of Superiority Or Inferiority.

The Purpose Of Our Life Is To Help Others Through It.

I Like To Hear And Smell The Countryside, The Land That My Characters Inhabit. I Don’t Want These Characters To Step Off The Page, I Want Them To Step Out Of The Landscape.

In Nonfiction, You Have That Limitation, That Constraint, Of Telling The Truth.

Zen Is Really Just A Reminder To Stay Alive And To Be Awake. We Tend To Daydream All The Time, Speculating About The Future And Dwelling On The Past. Zen Practice Is About Appreciating Your Life In This Moment. If You Are Truly Aware Of Five Minutes A Day, Then You Are Doing Pretty Well. We Are Beset By Both The Future And The Past, And There Is No Reality Apart From The Here And Now.