The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.