Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.