Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.