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

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

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.

You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

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.

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.