Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.

You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing together so that the whole becomes larger than the parts.

You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.