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

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.

I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.