When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.

You have to want something or you're finished.

You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

I know perfectly well that you can't not want anything and live.

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.