An interesting interview with author, David Scott Milton

the corner is another mystery, someone is killed, someone disappears, someone goes mad. I came across a quote that I used in my novel, Skyline (it's from some medieval religious writing that now escapes me): "Ye cannot find the depth of the heart of man; neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh." My writings are an attempt to touch the heart of man. If there is a message in my work, it is oblique and comes around to our shared humanity. We're on a funhouse ride together; there're going to be some chills, some spills, some laughs, some tears. And when it's all over let's hope we can say we had a good ride. At the end of Othello, after Iago has goaded the Moor into strangling his wife, Othello cries out, "Demand that demi-devil why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?" And Iago answers, "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this day forth I never will speak word." I've always taken that to be Shakespeare's answer to the questions about why man does what he does, about murder and evil and the mystery at the heart of man. We can ask the questions. Answers are very hard to come by and generally they must be learned by each person for themselves. It's one dance that must done alone.

SUITE: What time of day do you find you are most creative?

DAVID: In the couple of hours after I first wake up, I seem to be the most productive. Often, however, in the deep night some of my most complex, unusual, and best ideas leap into my cranium, from where I know not, and begin doing a galliard or the can-can on my brainpan . Inspiration can come to me at almost any time, but the ability to do something with that inspiration seems reserved for the first waking hours.

SUITE: I think I'm surrounded by morning people-almost all of the writers I have interviewed so far prefer writing in the morning. What sort of things do you do for fun?

DAVID: I enjoy sports and movies. I can still hit a baseball at eighty or ninety miles an hour and I love to see the faces of the kids at the batting cages when I do this. I love baseball, boxing, and football. I used to enjoy planting trees and I virtually re-forested my land. I now enjoy watching them grow.

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