My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write fiction effectively for about three or at the most four hours. No big mysteries, I just sit down and try to advance the cause a little bit every day.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone

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