I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?