Picture created by Caitlin O'Mahoney April 1998 

"I BELIEVE LIFE GOES on," he says, "and that makes me a pessimist... what many people are unwilling to realize is that their daily life comes to them the way fiction does. They must imagine themselves in what they are going to do. They must make decisions in their lives - whether the man next door is a threat or not, whether they are in love or about to be betrayed by a lover, or whether they want to leave a relationship. And if so they will have to mobilize their energy. And that's how I think my fiction comes to them - not pre-judged, relatively un-pre- packed. You have to project yourself into it and you have to judge it, my characters, the way you judge people in your daily life."  
  
 
The previous quotation has been taken from: http://www.radix.net/~joshua/kosinski.htm