I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.

…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?

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?