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Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

I write the way I write.

What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.