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You are what you drive in L.A.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it.

Most of my books have something to do with L.A.

I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.

I've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People from my past have stopped their cars and said, 'Hey!' But if I was in a car, they never would've seen me.