Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.