Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.

I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the amount of material that's ended up in the book.

Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.