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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

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

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.

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

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.