Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.

I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed. Consequently, one is behaving normally and instinctively and healthily when one is creating - literature, art, music, or whatever. An excellent cook is also creative! I am disturbed that a natural human inclination [creative work] should, by some Freudian turn of phrase, be considered compulsive - perhaps even pathological. To me this is a complete misreading of the human enterprise. One should also enjoy one's work, and look forward to it daily.

I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that engaged me.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.