Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.