I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
A sequence works in a way a collection never can.
In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature.
I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.
We take five, one-week vacations a year, and those dates are set in stone.
Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.