Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.

My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write fiction effectively for about three or at the most four hours. No big mysteries, I just sit down and try to advance the cause a little bit every day.

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock before I'm allowed to go and do something else. I just try to keep a hand in and work every single day, even if there are other demands or I'm on a book tour or have the flu or something, because then I keep my unconscious engaged with the book. Then I'm always a little bit writing, no matter what else I'm doing.