I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.