There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.
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To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.
I grew up with a very religious background.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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