I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

I want to say less, and it's easier to say less.