The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you.

I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.