Like Kay Boyle, whose work I'm wild about, I could have married, written a book with every baby, a baby with every book.
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.