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I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else.