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

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

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

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

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.