MAN: Oh, that’s not true! A day doesn’t go by that I don’t sit down at my desk and... write. I mean... try to write. You see... it’s not as if I have writer’s block. To have writer’s block, you first have to be a writer. Trou-ble is, they say you have to write what you know. For writers like you, I mean, you fight and whore and travel the world. You’ve covered wars and riots and revolutions. And you have friends all over the world who have done things just like that. And on top of it all you’ve had four wives. You have no end of things to write about. And what do I have? No family, no wife. Selling shoes in Cleveland for twenty-five years. No one wants to read about that. I don’t think I’m untalented. I got into Princeton after all. But I cringe to think of the things I submitted to Lonoff to get into his seminar. But now I think, if I actually had a story to tell, some-thing interesting, something that happened to me... well... I think it would just flow out of me. And actually be pretty good.
