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

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

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

Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.

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