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I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.

I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.

I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing.

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.