I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.