A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as you do if you're writing a book, and you get a bit of money coming in, and you can see more clearly how you're paying the bills. But it's not a good position for the serious novelist to be in.

We are not permitted to comment on it,

Everything that I wanted to say in my statement was not permitted and that's not just me. That's everybody else from our family. You really are very limited with what you can say to the defendant. However, his family was permitted to address me however they chose. But I wasn't allowed to say my opinion on the death penalty, what I thought of Daryl, what I thought should happen to Daryl. We weren't permitted to do that, so victims really have very limited rights.

Sharing is the first stage to the evolution of the intellectual.