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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.

A book becomes something else once it's dramatized.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.