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The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.