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

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

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

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