He knows, of course, that lurid metaphor – stand up, Henry Miller – is just as treacherous as frankness, and he seems to want instead a type of writing driven to extremes of indirection, where things "become concepts, light as angels".
What surprising truth motivated you to write "Drive"?
Though peripheral vision remains intact, macular degeneration robs people of their central vision, making it hard or impossible to read, write, drive, watch television, see the time, recognize faces and see where they are going.
Toshiba has brought the world it's first HD DVD write drive while still supporting older formats, ie DVD and CD.
While I'm not as productive as I could be, I am what they call a functioning stoner: I can usually read, write, drive, do chores, and carry on conversations while high.
I wrote driven by memory or anticipation.
When Alfred Uhry wrote "Driving Miss Daisy," he was in part reminiscing about his headstrong grandmother.
But the book is also — this must be stressed — splendidly written, driven by this writer's prodigious narrative gifts.
Mr Williams writes driven, eloquent, emotionally-heightened poetry that is an excellent vehicle for poems about loss, frantic self-questioning, anguish, despair and also for exultation.
"His regulatory policies, his advocacy of resource conservation in the West, and his endorsement of an inheritance tax," Mr. Gould writes, "drove conservatives to paroxysms of rage".
It is not that neurofeedback does not work, said Dr. Hallowell, who wrote "Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood".
