Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.
Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.
It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.