The Woman Body

The only woman's body I had studied, with ever-increasing apprehension, was the lame body of my mother, and I had felt pressed, threatened by that image, and still feared that it would suddenly impos...

People Come For Money or Freedom

It�s all circling around the same problem of personal liberties , Walter said. People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don�t have money, you cling to your freedoms all the m...

Writing a Novel

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can make people live there may be no great characters in his book, but it is...