Occupation: Author Birth: March 2, 1943
With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These sto….
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any parti….
I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear..
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed ba….
I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old..
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ..….
Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understa….
If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom..
To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe.A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it ….
You cannot overestimate the role of intuition in fiction writing. Or the role of accident or randomness. These things are very central. This is never….
Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and colo….
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time..
I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's out of a desire to ….
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might ….
What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ….
I always think about the books I'm doing in pretty much the same way. I'm simply trying to write that particular novel as well as that particular nov….
I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing, and although it was published, ….
My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much a….
Wolf! Right here and now!.
Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the ot….
These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about ….