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stillborn love notes provide small satisfaction

Only a crazy man would write a novel in Lincoln's voice.

What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.

I dreamed my way into Lincoln and the details that moved me - his lack of education or 'civilized' manners and his deep connection to all humankind.

I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.

I had a terror - since September - I could tell to none - and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground -

We're the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, represent a kind of extended infantilism, beauties waiting for the big chance.

Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?