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I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.

You can't go by what things look like on paper.

When I'm writing, I'm creating the story and its character with words. I'm thinking about what the pictures will be like, but I never begin to sketch. The pictures are all in my head.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.

All my work is about how it feels to look.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.