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

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.

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.

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

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.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

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