I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.

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.

Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.

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

Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.