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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

The desire to write grows with writing.