You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. [...] The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.