The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines of a compulsive need to swap syllables around, rework words and sentences - I revise for the pleasure and satisfaction of it, rather than out of a sense of duty.

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.

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

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.