I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.