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I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Books and marriage go ill together.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.