Chicago Liebling / Favorite Platz / Place Roman / Novel Schrieb / Wrote Schriftsteller / Writer Stadt / City Woher / Where Wurden / Became Zuerst / First Zweite / Second
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it.
