“Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of …” — Chaim Potok

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.