I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read a great novel - something that I could never have written myself - I'm still looking at it a little bit like a technician.

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.

Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.