I can`t coach anymore. I want to run a team.
I listen to some of the comments on WIP - they`re playing parts of the press conference - and I can see where people would read into things. But if anyone was at the press conference, I think would sense how much I enjoyed Philly and how I loved working for those people.
I originally had an idea about a family of people who were homeless, just traveling around without any solid roots or any home, who made their way around working wherever they could. I started it with them. The idea of Joe as a protagonist came along a little later.
They drink a lotta beer, do a lotta riding around; I drink a lotta beer, do a lotta riding around.
I`m happy writing full-time and I`ve been making a living off it so far. I haven`t had any complaints with it at all. I`m happy.
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
I`ve read everything Harry Crews has ever published. I reckon all of his novels and even his first story, which was published in about 1963.
I didn`t hear what he said and really don`t care.
I think it is necessary to sit down and work for years and years to get it right. I think that`s the main thing, that`s what the emphasis has got to be on: individual work.