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Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Novel writing is solitary work.

One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.

I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.

Writing is a lonely business.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.