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.

My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.

So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm hearing in my head. It takes a lot of work, writing, writing, and rewriting to get the music exactly the way you want it to be.

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

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.

However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.