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.

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.

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

The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

There aren't many shy writers left.