My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage.

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.