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.
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.
It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.
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.
