If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

We need time to lose interest in things.

It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.