I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.