Well, here I am responding to something I have no real idea about. Is your writing a kind of self-therapy, Harry? It always reads that way. At the outset, I should admit to myself that writing may be an outlet for accepting the brutality of my life, given and received. But that is deeply personal. Raised in an orphanage, no secret to readers of my work, it is a starting place for so many stories.

I write because I cannot do anything else.