I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language.

The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all.