In the wee hours of early dawn

A crazy question crossed my mind while I was sitting

at my writing desk in the wee hours of early dawn

– “Why do you write?”

“Well, what kind of a question is that?”

But then this question did impel me to come up with

a justifiable answer, which is….

If I conk off tomorrow, people will at least know

about me by reading my books.

What would they know?

Basically that I was capable of being amusing and

entertaining…. I think the novel is an incredibly

intimate portrait of the writer - more intimate than

almost anything else in the world! I mean you do

enter the company of a writer for several hours

while you are reading a book…it

seldom happens in real life … so although I am not an

autobiographical writer I would say I am all over my

books!