But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.