Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.

I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.

To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

I usually feel something before I know it.