I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!

I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.

Art is not in some far-off place.

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.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well as quality, and if you're not producing enough, make a schedule and stick to it.

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.