A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.