Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.