Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way.

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.

I don't know what a natural thought process is.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.