With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

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

My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.