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I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.