When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.