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I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.