A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
From E. L. Doctorow
Movies are too literal.
I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
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