Amplitude is a powerful quality in fiction. It results in involvement, in sympathy with the characters. After a while, a reader can't avoid being involved with a book, caring about it, even if it's not a particularly good book. You're in it, and you're committed to it.

The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.