I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.