The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up.

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.

Information is control.

I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.

I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.

In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.

We all survive more than we think we can.