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

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.

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

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow I keep myself sane.

I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.